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  1. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside{...}. The individual is not free to shape the idea of femininity at will.
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  2. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully.
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  3. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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  4. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    biology alone cannot provide an answer to the question that concerns us: why is woman the Other? The question is how, in her, nature has been taken on in the course of history; the question is what humanity has made of the human female.
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  5. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    How will the fact of being women have affected our lives? What precise opportunities have been given us, and which ones have been denied? What destiny awaits our younger sisters, and in which direction should we point them?
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  6. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    Woman has ovaries and a uterus; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her subjectivity; some even say she thinks with her hormones. Man vainly forgets that his anatomy also contains hormones and testicles. He grasps his body as a direct and normal link with the world that he believes he apprehends in all objectivity, whereas he considers woman's body an obstacle, a prison, burdened by everything that particularizes it.
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  7. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as instrument of her transcendence, but "an object destined for another."
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  8. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    By the time humankind reaches the stage of writing its mythology and laws, patriarchy is definitively established: it is males who write the codes.
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  9. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    Un amor auténtico debería de asumir la contingencia del otro, es decir, sus carencias, sus límites y su gratuidad originaria; así no pretendería ser una salvación sino una relación entre seres humanos.
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  10. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.
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  11. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
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  12. Simone de Beauvoir _ The Second Sex

    The little girl's sense of secrecy that developed at prepuberty only grows in importance. She closes herself up in fierce solitude: she refuses to reveal to those around her the hidden self that she considers to be her real self and that is in fact an imaginary character: she plays at being a dancer like Tolstoy's Natasha, or a saint like Marie Leneru, or simply the singular wonder that is herself. There is still an enormous difference between this heroine and the objective face that her parents and friends recognise in her. She is also convinced that she is misunderstood: her relationship with herself becomes even more passionate: she becomes intoxicated with her isolation, feels different, superior, exceptional: she promises that the future will take revenge on the mediocrity of her present life. From this narrow and petty existence she escapes by dreams.
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