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Quotes About Gender

Les femmes ne sont pas solidaires en tant que sexe : elles sont d'abord liées à leur classe. Les intérêts des bourgeoises et ceux des femmes prolétaires ne se recoupent pas.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
the little girl feels that her body is escaping her, that it is no longer the clear expression of her individuality; it becomes foreign to her; and at the same moment, she is grasped by others as a thing; on the street, eyes follow her, her body is subject to comments; she would like to become invisible she is afraid of becoming flesh and afraid to show her flesh
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Bourgeoises, elles sont solidaires des bourgeois et non des femmes prolétaires ; blanches des hommes blancs et non des femmes noires
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Muž je v práve preto, že je muž. V nepráve je žena.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
As long as perfect economic equality is not realized in society and as long as customs allow the woman to profit as wife and mistress from the privileges held by certain men, the dream of passive success will be maintained in her and will hold back her own accomplishments.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
We can hope to grasp the significance of sexuality only by studying it in its concrete manifestations; and then perhaps the meaning of the word female will stand revealed.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Sovyetler birliÄŸinde evlilik devrimin ilk y?llar?nda yaln?zca eÅŸlerin özgürlüÄŸüne baÄŸl? bireyler aras? bir sözleÅŸme say?lm??t?r; bugünse devletin eÅŸlere yüklediÄŸi bir hizmet say?lmaktad?r. Aranan ÅŸey, bireysel mutluluÄŸu saÄŸlamak deÄŸil, kad?nla erkeÄŸin cinsel ve ekonomik birliÄŸini topluluk ç?kar? doÄŸrultusunda aÅŸmakt?r.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
She [the female] appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex - absolute sex, no less.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
ByÃ…Â¥ ženou znamená byÃ…Â¥ objektom, tou Druhou.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In the unfertilised egg not even the concept of femaleness is as yet established. As Hegel justly remarks the sexual relation cannot be referred back to the relation of the gametes. It is our duty, then, to study the female organism as a whole.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Few myths have been more advantageous to the ruling master caste than this one: it justifies all privileges and even authorizes taking advantage of them. Men do not have to care about alleviating the suffering and the burdens that are physiologically women's lot since they are intended by Nature; they take this as pretext for increasing the misery of the women's condition-- for example, by denying woman the right to sexual pleasure, or making her work like a beast of burden.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Women is the negative, to such a point that any determination is imputed to her as a limitation, without reciprocity.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Muži sú tyrani... Zaobchádzajú s nami ako s hra?kami... robia si z nás prá?ky a kuchárky.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Tak ako v Amerike nie je problém ?ernochov, ale problém bielych, tak ako "antisemitizmus nie je problém židovský, ale problém náÅ¡," tak problém ženy bol vždy problémom mužov.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Rodi?ia eÅ¡te vychovávajú svoje dcéry radÅ¡ej pre manželstvo, než by podporovali ich osobný rozvoj. A žena v ?om vidí to?ko výhod, že po ?om sama túži.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
No hay que creer en el Príncipe Azul. Los hombres no son más que unos pobres seres.» No parecerían enanos si no se les pidiera que fuesen gigantes.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
In many cases, the man can commit acts with woman's complicity that degrade her without tarnishing his lofty image.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman
~ Simone de Beauvoir
En la Naturaleza, nada está nunca completamente claro: los tipos, macho y hembra, no siempre se distinguen con nitidez.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Le plus médiocre des mâles se croit en face des femmes un demi-dieu.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If men were content to love a peer instead of a slave — as indeed some men do who are without either arrogance or an inferiority complex — then women would be far less obsessed with their femininity; they would become more natural and simple and would easily rediscover themselves as women, which, after all, they are.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
She was a woman with a working brain and no work.
~ Sinclair Lewis
his writings to elicit a sense of realism while inspiring a call for social change. Class, gender, and sexual preference were themes that he cared about, and he showed his readers that none of these factors actually mattered.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men. They are far superior and always have been. Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she will give you a baby. If you give her a house, she will give you a home. If you give her groceries, she will give you a meal. If you give her a smile she will give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit!
~ Sir William Golding