Quotes about Woman 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.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about woman

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

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about woman

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about woman

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about woman

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about woman

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

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about woman