It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that b...

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1950)
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!