Construes Oneself

Famous quotes containing the words construes and/or oneself:

“From a child’s play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world—what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.”
—Bruno Bettelheim (20th century)

“To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.”
—Simone De Beauvoir (1908–1986)