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Simone de Beauvoir

“It is difficult for men to measure the enormous extent of social discrimination that seems insignificant form the outside and whose moral and intellectual repercussions are so deep in woman that they appear to spring from an original nature. The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully.”

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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The Second Sex The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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