“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
Tag: Womanism
A Question
All of this raises a question: why has feminism, which managed to win so many battles—the notion of a woman with a career has become perfectly unexceptionable—remained anathema to millions of women who are the beneficiaries of its success?
— Ariel Levy, “Lift And Separate”
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
“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)
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