Simone de Beauvoir Males Quotations

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.

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

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and eunuch, which is described as feminine.

If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion