Essays on Woman (1996), Fundamental Principles of Women's Education (1931)
“The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man — the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more — is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations.”
The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971).
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Source: "Woman in Europe" (1927), P. 243
“There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 27
Alluding to Rabia of Basra, Nafahat al-Uns, as quoted in A Literary History of Persia https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Literary_History_of_Persia/q_n1DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA299 by E. G. Browne, p. 299.
Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 3, Chapter 31, verse 41, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/3/31/41
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Women's Rights