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Simone de Beauvoir
(9 Jan 1908 - 14 Apr 1986)
French novelist and feminist.
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Science Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir (2)
It is among the psychoanalysts in particular that man is defined as a human being and woman as a female—whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex (1949). Trans. H. M. Parshley (1953), 83.
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex (1949). Trans. H. M. Parshley (1953).
See also: | Woman (18)
