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Woman Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to…
- In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human…
- Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell…
- Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
- Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and…
- If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if…
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from…
- To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have…
- No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely…
- A man is in the right in being a man; it is the woman who is in the wrong.
- Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered.…
- It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral…
- Woman has always been man's dependent, if not his slave; the two sexes have never shaped the world in equality. And even today woman is…
- Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world…
- It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not…
- A man attaches himself to woman -- not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
- On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but…
- The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice;…
- I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and…
- Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.
- One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
- One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
- One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
- The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strengtheach asking from the…
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