“Because she is woman, the girl knows that the sea and the poles, a thousand adventures, a thousand joys, are forbidden to her: she is born on the wrong side.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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Man is Defined
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.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir on Becoming a Woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
Lisa Marie Blair 