On Woman Quotes

she gives birth in pain, she heals males' wounds, she nurses the newborn and buries the dead; of man she knows all that offends his pride and humiliates his will. While inclining before him and submitting flesh to spirit, she remains on the carnal borders of the spirit; and she contests the sharpness of hard masculine architecture by softening the angles; she introduces free luxury and unforeseen grace.

Simone de Beauvoir

: woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be.

Simone de Beauvoir