Top 7 One Is Not Born A Woman But Becomes One Quotes

#1. One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Simone De Beauvoir

#2. I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

Kristina Schroder

#3. When Simone de Beauvoir said, "One is not born a woman - one becomes one," she didn't know the half of it. In

Caitlin Moran

#4. Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Andrea Dworkin

#5. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. They say a girl becomes a woman when she loses her mother. You, child, were born a woman.

Edwidge Danticat

#7. One is not born a woman - one becomes one," she didn't know the half of it.

Caitlin Moran

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