Simone de Beauvoir

Everything that has been written by men

about women should be viewed with suspicion,

because they are both judge and party.

“Everything that men have written about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party,”

“Blessed be the Lord our God, and the Lord of all worlds that has not made me a woman,”

“Blessed be the Lord for creating me according to his will.”

“Women are not wrong at all when they reject the rules of life that have been introduced into the world, inasmuch as it is the men who have made these without them. There is a natural plotting and scheming between them and us.”

like man, woman is a human being

very often their attempt to polemicize robs them of all value. If the “question of women” is so trivial, it is because masculine arrogance turned it into a “quarrel”; when people quarrel, they no longer reason well

Woman? Very simple, say those who like simple answers: She is a womb, an ovary; she is a female: this word is enough to define her.

The Second Sex has been called a “feminist bible,”

One is not born, but rather becomes, woman