Quotes About Society

Ningún hombre consentiría en ser mujer, pero todos desean que haya mujeres.

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Humanity is male and man defines woman not in herself but in relation to himself; she is not considered an autonomous being.

On ne peut pas mener une vie correcte dans une société qui ne l'est pas?

El cuerpo de la mujer es uno de los elementos esenciales de la situación que ella ocupa en este mundo, pero tampoco él basta para definirla, ese cuerpo no tiene realidad vivida, sino en la medida en que es asumido por la conciencia a través de sus acciones y el seno de una sociedad

Na boca do homem o epíteto «fêmea» soa como um insulto; no entanto, ele não se envergonha da sua animalidade, sente-se, ao contrário, orgulhoso se dizem dele: «É um macho!» O termo «fêmea» é pejorativo, não porque enraíza a mulher na Natureza, mas porque a confina ao seu sexo.

Destronada pelo advento da propriedade privada, é a ela que o destino da mulher permanece ligado durante os séculos: em grande parte, a sua história confunde-se com a história da herança.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

As virgens que o homem não dominou, as mulheres velhas que escaparam ao seu poder, são mais facilmente do que as outras encaradas como feiticeiras.

Si la mujer es prosaica, casera, bajamente utilitaria, se debe a que le imponen que consagre su existencia a preparar alimentos y limpiar deyecciones. No será de ahí de donde podrá extraer el sentido de la grandeza.

Encierran a la mujer en una cocina o un tocador y se asombran de que su horizonte esté limitado; le cortan las alas y deploran que no sepa volar.

oppression is explained by the tendency of the existent to flee from himself by alienating himself in the other that he oppresses for that purpose; this tendency can be found in each individual man today: and the vast majority give in to it; a husband looks for himself in his wife, a lover in his mistress, in the guise of a stone statue; he seeks in her the myth of his virility, his sovereignty, his unmediated reality.

a abundância de lazer nos empobrece.

Today, the majority of workers are exploited. Moreover, social structures have not been deeply modified by the changes in women's condition. This world has always belonged to men and still retains the form they have imprinted on it.

bstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects.

Women- except in abstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects.

To 'remake woman', society would have had to have already made her really man's equal.

Eroticism implies a claim of the instant against time, of the individual against the collectivity; it affirms separation against communication; it rebels against all regulation; it contains a principle hostile to society. Social customs are never bent to fit the rigor of institutions and laws: love has forever asserted itself against them.

In our opinion, there is no public good other than one that assures the citizens' private good; we judge institutions from the point of view of the concrete opportunities they give to individuals.

Essere donna non è un dato naturale, ma il risultato di una storia. Non c'è un destino biologico e psicologico che definisce la donna in quanto tale. Tale destino è la conseguenza della storia della civiltà, e per ogni donna la storia della sua vita.

C'est en grande partie l'angoisse d'être femme qui ronge le corps féminin.

Ce ne sont pas les individus qui sont responsables de l'échec du mariage: c'est l'institution elle-même qui est originellement pervertie

Refusing to be the Other, refusing complicity with man, would mean renouncing all the advantages an alliance with the superior caste confers on them. Lord-man will materially protect liege-woman and will be in charge of justifying her existence: along with the economic risk, she eludes the metaphysical risk of a freedom that must invent its goals without help.

Las mujeres no son solidarias como sexo: ante todo están ligadas a su clase; los intereses de las burguesas y los de las mujeres proletarias no coinciden.