Quotes about Man by Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir French writer and essayist

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. Simone

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about man