love act is still considered a service woman renders to man, thus giving him the status of master; we have seen that he can always take an inferior woman, but she degrades herself if she gives herself to a male who is not her equal;

she is nothing other than what man decides; she is thus called “the sex,” meaning that the male sees her essentially as a sexed being; for him she is sex, so she is it in the absolute. She is determined and differentiated in relation to man, while he is not in relation to her; she is the inessential in front of the essential. He is the Subject; he

last stage of pregnancy begins the separation between mother and child.

It is that they lack the concrete means to organize themselves into a unit that could posit itself in opposition. They have no past, no history, no religion of their own; and unlike the proletariat, they have no solidarity of labor or interests; they even lack their own space that makes communities of American blacks, the Jews in ghettos, or the

hostility for this little individual who threatens her flesh, her freedom, her whole self.

50 percent of prostitutes were first servants. One look at “maids’ rooms” is enough to explain this fact. Exploited, enslaved, treated as an object rather than as a person,

Man, out of prudence, destines his wife to chastity, but he does not derive satisfaction from the regime he imposes on her.

Humanity is male, and man defines woman, not in herself, but in relation to himself; she is not considered an autonomous being.

Man thinks himself without woman. Woman does not think herself without man.”