The Second Sex Quotes

“Two separate beings, placed in different situations, confronting each other in their freedom, and seeking the justification of existence through each other, will always live an adventure full of risks and promises.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:freedom adventure relationship risk

“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in one’s self.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:self body

“A man never begins by positing himself as an individual of a certain sex: that he is a man is obvious.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:men

“Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deeply rooted in it. Personal accomplishments are almost impossible in human categories collectively...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:change

“Few books are as fascinating as certain confessions: but they have to be sincere, and the author has to have something to confess.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:books

“All oppression creates a state of war.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:war oppression

“The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“A woman is shut up in a kitchen or a boudoir, and one is surprised her horizon is limited; her wings are cut, and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:woman

“One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:woman

“Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

topic:woman importance

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