The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to s...eek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The advantage man enjoys, which makes itself felt from his childhood, is that his vocation as a human being in no way runs counter... to his destiny as a male. Through his identification of phallus and transcendence, it turns out that his social and spiritual successes endow him with a virile prestige. He is not divided. Whereas it is required of woman that in order to realize her femininity she must make herself object and prey, which is to say that she must renounce her claims as a sovereign subject. It is this conflict that especially marks the situation of the emancipated woman. She refuses to confine herself to her role as female, because she will not accept mutilation; but it would also be a mutilation to repudiate her sex. Man is a human being with sexuality; woman is a complete individual, equal to the male, only if she too is a human being with sexuality. To renounce her femininity is to renounce a part of her humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves an...d refuse to be a "manipulated group." They will not be truly emancipated until ... the right to work is a matter of course and not of discussion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous. We ar...e concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your menstrual blood--if it makes you sick, you've a long... way to go, baby.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction from the ideal of an intellect...ual and emancipated womanhood, for which the pioneers toiled and suffered, to be seen in painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And because I consider myself sexually free and morally emancipated, I am still a responsible, discriminating woman who does not i...ntend to jump into bed with the first wavy- haired, muscle-bound ego-centric male who thinks he can seduce me by agreeing with some of the things I believe in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »