It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.


The Second Sex (1949) vol. 1, pt. 2, ch. 1


It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the...

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the...

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the...

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the...