A mother feels threatened when her daughter performs her household role well

Evidence

The mother likes to rule over her feminine universe without competition; she wants to be unique, irreplaceable; and yet here her young assistant reduces her to the pure generality of her function. She scolds her daughter sternly if, after being away for two days, she finds her household in disorder; but she goes into fits of anger if it so happens that family life continued along well without her. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1526

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mothers can treat their own daughters as rivals to be defeated — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1728

Broader Connections

• Mothers can treat their own daughters as rivals to be defeated #corroborates (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1728