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Simone de Beauvoir
(9 Jan 1908 - 14 Apr 1986)
French novelist and feminist.
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Science Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir (2 quotes)
It is among the psychoanalysts in particular that 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.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex (1949). Trans. H. M. Parshley (1953), 83.
To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The Second Sex (1949). Trans. H. M. Parshley (1953).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
