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John Berger
“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”
John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Simone de Beauvoir
“And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth?”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir
“Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside[...]. The individual is not free to shape the idea of femininity at will.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir
“To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.”
Simone de Beauvoir, Prime of Life

Simone de Beauvoir
“The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so;”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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