Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of 'women are inferior.'

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Not regarded as the equals of men.

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

It is probably true to say that the largest scope for changes still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male ideas to female facts.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.