The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands....

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

 A 20th century French author and existentialist philosopher, Simone de Beauvoir was most famous for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a  detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary  feminism.