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“Once we give the sense of contradiction its due, we see that genuinely feminist philosophical work ... not only has the potential to revolutionalize philosophy but actually demands a reappraisal, from the ground up, of what it is to be a human—a thinking and sexed—being.”
― Nancy Bauer, Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism

“In Beauvoir’s writing, the emancipation of women, an emancipation that on her view can come to full flower only in the wake of a certain transformation in the human being, is linked with a certain transformation in the conventional understanding—both continental and analytic—about how to inherit the tradition of philosophy.”
― Nancy Bauer, Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism

“For part of being a subject, Beauvoir thought, is allowing yourself, and your say, to be the object of other people's judgement, rational or irrational: to risk being ridiculed or condemned or ignored or, worse, to find yourself convinced that the harsh judgements of others are true–or, maybe worst of all, to be confused about these judgements, to discover that, after all, you don't know who you are.”
― Nancy Bauer, How to Do Things with Pornography