Le Deuxième Sexe by Simone de Beauvoir

La féminité ne constitue en aucun cas une condition, une nature, une essence, mais une situation imposée par la volonté d’être femme.

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) wrote the phrase “On ne naît pas femme, on le devient” in her 2 volumes’ book “Le deuxième sexe.” The book revealed the stereotyping of women and was a catalyst of the feminism movement. She is also known as existentialist.
She was very close to Jean-Paul Sartre whom she met in 1929 in Sorbonne. 

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~ by dinglingzi on June 20, 2008.