No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. Simone de Beauvoir on women
The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women. Simone de Beauvoir on women
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 the absolute truth. Simone de Beauvoir on work