TheNZThrower
Active Member
A claim that has been floated around right wing circles is a quote attributed to Simone de Beauvoir that goes as follows according to this Fox News article:
I mean, Beauvoir did have some other works which I haven't analysed, and maybe they might contain such a quote? I dunno, as a quote that only comes via extremely biased secondary sources from one end of the political spectrum seems suspect to me.
Now I was not able to find any quote along those lines in any of Beauvoir's work via a quick word search. If we take a look at her seminal work ''The Second Sex'', we find no statement matching the alleged quote if we perform a word search:In 1976, the French feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir said, “No woman should be authorized to stay home to raise her children. Women should not have that choice, because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.”
I mean, Beauvoir did have some other works which I haven't analysed, and maybe they might contain such a quote? I dunno, as a quote that only comes via extremely biased secondary sources from one end of the political spectrum seems suspect to me.