The Second Sex quotes

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

On ne naît pas femme : on le devient.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.

Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

The free woman is just being born.