When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.
Simone de BeauvoirIt 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 BeauvoirWomen aren't more easily swayed by fascism than men, but I believe that their situation makes them in effect more slavish than men.
Simone de Beauvoir