Save![[Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called](https://quotes.cx/wp-content/uploads/quotes/1/6/Simone-de-Beauvoir-Quote-167160.jpg "[Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called")
[Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called “the sex,” by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex — absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute — she is the Other.
