There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.
Simone de BeauvoirThe writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de BeauvoirBut women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
Simone de Beauvoir