One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman

[Gulliver]

什么意思？

 

[精灵精灵]

想变性的节奏啊。。。

 

[ccc]

A quotation from Simone de Beauvoir.

 

[ccc]

想变性的节奏啊。。。

No, no, no.

 

[ccc]

"Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won."

"All oppression creates a state of war; this is no exception."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion."

"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."

"To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other. The reciprocity of their relations will not do away with the miracles – desire, possession, love, dream, adventure – worked by the division of human beings into two separate categories; and the words that move us – giving, conquering, uniting – will not lose their meaning. On the contrary, when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form."

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

"On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself – on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger. In the meantime, love represents in its most touching form the curse that lies heavily upon woman confined in the feminine universe, woman mutilated, insufficient unto herself."

"Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being."

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/09/simone-de-beauvoir-google-doodle-quotes

 

[Gulliver]

A quotation from Simone de Beauvoir.

西蒙•波伏娃

 

[笨妈笨爸]

什么意思？

这人是没有文化言不达意的典范。别学他。说句话，让很多人看不懂不是啥好事。

 

[ccc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, commonly known as Simone de Beauvoir (French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ]; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986), was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.[1] De Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography and monographs on philosophy, politics and social issues. She is best known for her novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, as well as her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism.

 

[Gulliver]

"Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."

"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise up towards heaven, they lie spread out ahead, grey and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won."

"All oppression creates a state of war; this is no exception."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion."

"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."

"To emancipate woman is to refuse to confine her to the relations she bears to man, not to deny them to her; let her have her independent existence and she will continue nonetheless to exist for him also: mutually recognising each other as subject, each will yet remain for the other an other. The reciprocity of their relations will not do away with the miracles – desire, possession, love, dream, adventure – worked by the division of human beings into two separate categories; and the words that move us – giving, conquering, uniting – will not lose their meaning. On the contrary, when we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the 'division' of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form."

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

"On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself – on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger. In the meantime, love represents in its most touching form the curse that lies heavily upon woman confined in the feminine universe, woman mutilated, insufficient unto herself."

"Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being."

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/09/simone-de-beauvoir-google-doodle-quotes

This is too much. Just one I would like to know: One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

 

[Gulliver]

如果我们说生活是选择构成的，那就是说，一个女孩可以经过选择不成为女人？

 

[comefromwhere]

what is the definition of a woman?

 

[b4w]

女权呐女权

 

[ccc]

如果我们说生活是选择构成的，那就是说，一个女孩可以经过选择不成为女人？

不应该是这么直接的意思。

须从哲学的角度去理解。One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.　直译的话，“One is not born a woman, but becomes one.”

法语："On ne naît pas femme, on le devient."

dévier = deviate

一个女人，小的时候，英文称之为girl，成年后称之为woman　（法语，fille, femme)。哲学家耍起来，够我们琢磨一阵子了，如果不是一辈子。

 

[9981]

这人是没有文化言不达意的典范。别学他。说句话，让很多人看不懂不是啥好事。

喜欢简单直接不是什么错， 但讨厌思考是个毛病

 

[玉奴飞]

女人不是天生的。
或者
玉不琢，不成器。
或者
女性的真正品质，难能与生俱来。