I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.
Simone de BeauvoirIf the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion
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 BeauvoirThis is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity.
Simone de Beauvoir