One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir on Becoming a Woman
Tag: Feminism
“The subject of fertility appears one more time in this work. As a rather strange still life, Frida depicts plants-flowers-seeds-vaginas in process of gestation: the flowers’ pistils are drops of semen impregnating the ovum inside. A fetus is crying, just as is the third eye of the sun. Once again, Frida has had to face the loss of a child.”
(via Google Arts and Culture)
Neither White Nor Male
“Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be.”
— Toni Morrison, Sula (via @missberlyreads)
Lisa Marie Blair 