#second sex

[fxhdskjz]

Can any French speakers help me?

[sweetlacedreams]

to be a woman is to perform - like a dying swan under the gaze of others, to be seen, studied, and to be evident. It is to wear the fleeting mask of beauty, a fragile portrait that society will soon render monstrous, outrageous, not "clean" enough. to be a beautiful girl is to be a dead girl,like a snow white,forever remembered in the glass coffin.

[bookwormlily]

On their first study date, she explained Leibniz to him.

Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s Second Sex, Judith Thurman

[inbonobo]

'Becoming #Beauvoir': Her #philosophy, love life and contradictions on #feminism https://amzn.to/2mpIdY4

was #SimonedeBeauvoir more than I thought? #SecondSex

[byronlite]

To say that woman is mystery is to say not that she is silent but that her language is not heard...

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

[parrillasarrow]

I'm just concerned. I'm concerned because this is what I feared. The bimbos with big tits never worried me, but a woman who's read "The Second Sex" will chew you up and spit you out.

elle

[weil-weil-lautre]

If well before puberty and sometimes even starting from early childhood she already appears sexually specified, it is not because mysterious instincts immediately destine her to passivity, coquetry, or motherhood but because the intervention of others in the infant's life is almost originary, and her vocation is imperiously breathed into her from the first years of her life.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 283.

[permiranda]

Man is defined as a human being and woman is defined as a female. Whenever she tries to behave as a human being she is accused of trying to emulate the male. ~Simone Signoret