“ In the past, when it was a question of carrying heavy clubs and of keeping wild beasts at bay, woman’s physical weakness constituted a flagrant inferiority: if the instrument requires slightly more strength than the woman can muster, it is enough to make her seem radically powerless. ”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation
Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
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Source | The Second Sex |
Topic | weakness strength |
Date | 1949 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany Chevallier |
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