No Simone de Beauvoir feminist movement would not have been the same. With his writings, managed to denounce gender equality and show that being a mother or wife are not the only ways to realize ourselves as women. His essay ‘The Second Sex’ was key to making women reach independiencia, equal rights and a more active role in society.
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On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death, we remember some of his most memorable phrases.
1. On how gender is a social construct:
“is not born a woman: you get to be.”
2. Women on how it took time to assume the mission to assert their rights:
“The problem of women has always been a problem of men.”
3. About age:
“The skin wrinkles are that indescribable something that comes from the soul”
4.. On the importance of being alone:
“I’m too smart, too demanding and too recursive for someone to take care of me completely Nobody knows me and loves me alone.. I myself I have. ”
5. About not depend on anyone in love:
“The day that a woman can not love his weakness but his strength, not escape itself but found not grovel but assert, that day love will be for her, as for man, source of life and not a mortal danger. ”
6. About Beauty:
“Beauty is even harder to explain that happiness.”
7. On the inequality between men and women.
“Man is defined as a human being, while the woman is defined as female When she behaves as a human being is said to imitate to the man”.
8. On the importance of knowing yourself:
“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is one side of it and can give us the courage to fight for it.”
9. On sexual orientation:
“Homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal would be able to love a man or a woman without fear, restrictions and obligations” .
10. About our role in the world:
“Each of us is responsible for everything and every human being”.
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