Men do seem to think that a woman can be manmade, perhaps because a woman has been a commodity, a chattel, a possession, an object, for most of history.

Quelle qu’ait été sa source d’inspiration, le livre de Beauvoir surpasse celui de Sartre par son sens subtil de l’équilibre entre liberté et contrainte dans la vie d’une personne. Elle a montré comment les choix, les influences et les habitudes peuvent s’accumuler au fil d’une vie pour créer un carcan dont il devient difficile de se défaire. Sartre

One need only look at a woman's shape to discover that she is not intended for either too much mental or too much physical work. She pays the debt of life not by what she does but by what she suffers-by the pains of child-bearing, care for the child, and by subjection to man, to whom she should be a patient and cheerful companion.