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re: being a homemaker, "Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one"
'''Simone de Beauvoir''' was a [[French]] [[feminist]].
'''Simone de Beauvoir''' was a [[French]] [[feminist]] who opposed traditional [[gender role]]s for women.
She wrote:
She wrote:
* No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one." - "Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma," Saturday Review, June 14, 1975.
* "A parasite sucking out the living strength of another organism...the [housewife's] labor does not even tend toward the creation of anything durable.... [W]oman's work within the home [is] not directly useful to society, produces nothing. [The housewife] is subordinate, secondary, parasitic. It is for their common welfare that the situation must be altered by prohibiting marriage as a 'career' for woman."<ref> ''The Second Sex'', 1949. Cited in [http://ccostello.blogspot.com/2007/05/feminism-vs-womens-rights.html Domestic Felicity: Feminism vs. Women's rights] </ref>
* "A parasite sucking out the living strength of another organism...the [housewife's] labor does not even tend toward the creation of anything durable.... [W]oman's work within the home [is] not directly useful to society, produces nothing. [The housewife] is subordinate, secondary, parasitic. It is for their common welfare that the situation must be altered by prohibiting marriage as a 'career' for woman."<ref> ''The Second Sex'', 1949. Cited in [http://ccostello.blogspot.com/2007/05/feminism-vs-womens-rights.html Domestic Felicity: Feminism vs. Women's rights] </ref>
==Notes==
==Notes==
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