It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Ce n’est pas en donnant la vie, c’est en risquant sa vie que l’homme s’élève au-dessus de l’animal ; c’est pourquoi, dans l’humanité, la supériorité est accordée non au sexe qui engendre mais à celui qui tue.
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Original Citation
De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 1, Gallimard, 1949.
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Current Citation
De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.
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