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1. “And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth?”
Simone de Beauvoir
Femininity Question, Gender Roles, Philosophical Identity, Feminist Inquiry, Social Constructs, Womanhood
2. “It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.” Simone de Beauvoir Feminist Inquiry, Gender Limitations, Future Woman, Social Norms, Emotional Struggles, Empowerment Questions
3. “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?” Simone de Beauvoir Defining Woman, Eternal Feminine, Gender Identity, Female Existence, Feminist Inquiry, Philosophy
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1. “And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth?”
Simone de Beauvoir Femininity Question, Gender Roles, Philosophical Identity, Feminist Inquiry, Social Constructs, Womanhood
2. “It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.”
Simone de Beauvoir Feminist Inquiry, Gender Limitations, Future Woman, Social Norms, Emotional Struggles, Empowerment Questions
3. “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?”
Simone de Beauvoir Defining Woman, Eternal Feminine, Gender Identity, Female Existence, Feminist Inquiry, Philosophy
