Young girls perceive the world as a matriarchy governed by mother

Evidence

We have seen that in childhood and adolescence woman goes through several phases in connection with motherhood. When she is a little girl, it is a miracle and a game: she sees in the doll and she feels in the future child an object to possess and dominate. As an adolescent girl, on the contrary, she sees in it a threat to the integrity of her precious person. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1434 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

The child thinks of the future as an indefinite ascent toward some unidentified summit. Suddenly in the kitchen, where her mother is washing dishes, the little girl realizes that over the years, every afternoon at the same time, these hands have plunged into greasy water and wiped the china with a rough dish towel. And until death they will be subjected to these rites. Eat, sleep, clean … the years no longer reach toward the sky, they spread out identical and gray as a horizontal tablecloth; every day looks like the previous one; the present is eternal, useless, and hopeless. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1221 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Girls’ feelings about motherhood shift from possession to self-preservation in adolescence. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1434; Childhood’s imagined future collapses when girls confront their mothers’ repetitive domestic labor — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1221; Women confined to the male-created world remain in an infantile condition.

Broader Connections

• Girls’ feelings about motherhood shift from possession to self-preservation in adolescence. #qualifies (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1434
• Childhood’s imagined future collapses when girls confront their mothers’ repetitive domestic labor #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1221
• Women confined to the male-created world remain in an infantile condition. #expands (0.72)