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is the most sensible form of sexuality, for homosexuality is ultimately as limiting as heterosexuality. The ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man... either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man... either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

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is the triumph of freedom over facticity.

the triumph of freedom over facticity'. .

is constructed by one who takes on or appropriates that gender and could in principle, take on some other gender.

11 For Beauvoir, gender is 'constructed,' but implied in her formulation is an agent, a cogito, who somehow takes on or appropriates that gender and could, in principle, take on some other gender.'

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

is a career which brings about more benefits than many others.

Marriage is a career which brings about more benefits than many others. Simone de Beauvoir

is a vein of gross material in which the soul is imprisoned, the dark chaos from whence life wells up.

Simone de Beauvoir argued, 'man seeks in woman the Other as Nature [. . . ] Nature is a vein of gross material in which the soul is imprisoned [ . . . ] the dark chaos from whence life wells up' (1972: 248).

is a city with something in the air that makes sleep useless.

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. Simone Beauvoir

is practiced by many people, like barbarians, so that they do not have to look.

There was a group of Americans taking photographs. 'What barbarians!' said Papa. They take photographs so that they do not have to look. Simone de Beauvoir

is taking on the role of no longer to possess one.

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

is either looked upon as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

is an 'historical situation', a cultural construction suffered by the body in both how it acts and how it is perceived.

When Beauvoir claims that woman is an 'historical situation,' she emphasizes that the body suffers a certain cultural construction, not only through conventions that sanction and proscribe how one acts one's body, the 'act' or performance that one's body is, but also in the tacit conventions that structure the way the body is culturally perceived. Indeed, if gender is the cultural significance that the sexed body assumes, and if that significance is codetermined through various acts and their cultural perception, then it would appear that from within the terms of culture it is not possible to know sex as distinct from gender. The reproduction of the category of gender is enacted on a large political scale, as when women first enter a profession or gain certain rights, or are reconceived in legal or political discourse in significantly new ways. But the more mundane reproduction of gendered identity takes place through the various ways in which bodies are acted in relationship to the deeply entrenched or sedimented expectations of gendered existence' (Butler, Judith. 1988).

is the negative of man, not-man, in order for man to define what he is.

man defines woman as all that is not-man (Other) so that he can define what he is. locked into an Otherness that is central to human

is no longer the prey of overwhelming forces; she is herself, she and her body are one. It is sometimes said that women of a certain age constitute "a third sex".... Often, indeed, this release from female physiology is expressed in a health, a balance, a vigour that they lacked before.

Woman is now delivered from the servitude imposed by her female nature.... she is no longer the prey of overwhelming forces; she is herself, she and her body are one. It is sometimes said that women of a certain age constitute "a third sex".... Often, indeed, this release from female physiology is expressed in a health, a balance, a vigour that they lacked before.

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