This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in… — Simone de Beauvoir

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

In the original French

Ce monde a toujours appartenu aux mâles : aucune des raisons qu’on en a proposées ne nous ont paru suffisantes.

The Second Sex · 1949
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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.
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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 1, Gallimard, 1949.