The Second Sex quotes
5 quotes from The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
About Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.On ne naît pas femme : on le devient.
All oppression creates a state of war.
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.
Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
The free woman is just being born.
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