Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher and writer (1908 to 1986); author of The Second Sex (1949).
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No biological, psychological or economic fate makes women feminine; civilization does
No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.
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No biological, psychological or economic fate makes women feminine; civilization does
No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.
The Second Sex, translated by H. M. Parshley (Knopf, 1971 printing) Said c. 1949
Man is cast as the Subject and the Absolute; woman as the Other
He is the Subject, he is the Absolute—she is the Other.
The Second Sex, translated by H. M. Parshley (Knopf, 1971 printing) Said c. 1949
Humanity is defined as male, and woman only relative to man
Thus humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him; she is not regarded as an autonomous being.
The Second Sex, translated by H. M. Parshley (Knopf, 1971 printing) Said c. 1949
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Men describe the world from their own point of view and mistake it for absolute truth
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
The Second Sex, translated by H. M. Parshley (Knopf, 1971 printing) Said c. 1949
All oppression creates a state of war
All oppression creates a state of war.
The Second Sex, translated by H. M. Parshley (Knopf, 1971 printing) Said c. 1949
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