Quotes about The second sex

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To catch a husband is an art — to hold him is a job.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal — that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity no to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so; — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
The relation of woman to husband, of of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
she gives birth in pain, she heals males' wounds, she nurses the newborn and buries the dead; of man she knows all that — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
; the man who does not "understand" a woman is happy to replace his subjective deficiency with an objective resistance; — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
The little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality: it — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex