Choosing combat over resignation makes the independent woman feel more torn, not less

Evidence

All living problems find a silent solution in death; so a woman who works at living is more torn than one who buries her will and desires; but she will not accept being offered this as an example. She will consider herself at a disadvantage only when she compares herself with man. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1923

Categorization

• XREF: Chimes with Camus’s absurdist embrace of struggle over suicide, and with the existentialist commitment to living despite the ‘silent solution’ of death. — connects to: Fighting for a cause rather than oneself can intensify rather than soften conflict — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 306; Turning to armed struggle dissolves filial deference and creates individual autonomy — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 351

Broader Connections

• Turning to armed struggle dissolves filial deference and creates individual autonomy #contradicts (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 351
• Fighting for a cause rather than oneself can intensify rather than soften conflict #complicates (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 306