Simone de Beauvoir
(9 Jan 1908 - 14 Apr 1986)

French novelist and feminist.

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.
See also:  |  Man (112)  |  Psychoanalyst (3)  |  Woman (18)

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)


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