The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with wo… — Quoted

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“The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.”

Simone de Beauvoir · Women

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Simone de Beauvoir

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Freedom

Simone de Beauvoir

Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

Society

Simone de Beauvoir

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Fear

Simone de Beauvoir

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Truth