--- title: "2 Creating Woman Quotes by 2 authors" description: "Browse 2 Creating Woman quotes by 2 authors. Discover the best Creating Woman sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/902/simone-de-beauvoir-407_nature_woman-thus-emerged-as-the-inessential-wh_287492.jpg" --- > [“Woman thus emerged as the inessential who never returned to the essential, as the absolute Other, without reciprocity. All the creation myths express this conviction that is precious to the male, for example, the Genesis legend, which, through Christianity, has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir/woman-thus-emerged-as-the-inessential-who-never-returned-to-the/) [Simone de Beauvoir](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-de-beauvoir/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/902/simone-de-beauvoir-407_nature_woman-thus-emerged-as-the-inessential-wh_287492.jpg) > [“...when the Gods finished creating woman, they stood back and looked at what they'd done. They had given her a body strong enough to run a marathon, a mind fast enough to do six things at once, a heart big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-ball/when-the-gods-finished-creating-woman-they-stood-back-and-looked-at/) [Donna Ball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-ball/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe3/donna-ball-42632_gods_when-the-gods-finished-creating-woman-th_2586795.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creating-woman/#itemlist", "name": "Creating Woman Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Woman thus emerged as the inessential who never returned to the essential, as the absolute Other, without reciprocity. All the creation myths express this conviction that is precious to the male, for example, the Genesis legend, which, through Christianity, has spanned Western civilization. Eve was not formed at the same time as man; she was not made either from a different substance or from the same clay that Adam was modeled from: she was drawn from the first male’s flank. Even her birth was not autonomous; God did not spontaneously choose to create her for herself and to be directly worshiped in turn: he destined her for man; he gave her to Adam to save him from loneliness, her spouse is her origin and her finality; she is his complement in the inessential mode. Thus, she appears a privileged prey. She is nature raised to the transparency of consciousness; she is a naturally submissive consciousness. And therein lies the marvelous hope that man has often placed in woman: he hopes to accomplish himself as being through carnally possessing a being while making confirmed in his freedom by a docile freedom. No man would consent to being a woman, but all want there to be women. “Thank God for creating woman.” “Nature is good because it gave men woman.” In these and other similar phrases, man once more asserts arrogantly and naively that his presence in this world is an inevitable fact and a right, that of woman is a simple accident—but a fortunate one. Appearing as the Other, woman appears at the same time as a plenitude of being by opposition to the nothingness of existence that man experiences in itself; the Other, posited as object in the subject’s eyes, is posited as in-itself, thus as being. 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They had given her a body strong enough to run a marathon, a mind fast enough to do six things at once, a heart big enough to love even while it was breaking, hands that could paint a masterpiece or feed a family or write a symphony. And they were afraid, because they saw that what they made was stronger than they were. They knew they had to create a secret weapon, one thing they could use to destroy her. 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