If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?


The second sex (ed. Vintage, 1953)

Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through the eternal feminine, and if nevertheless we...

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through the eternal feminine, and if nevertheless we...

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through the eternal feminine, and if nevertheless we...

If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through the eternal feminine, and if nevertheless we...