“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: Women
Simone de Beauvoir on Becoming a Woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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 