La femme n'existe pas

"The fact that 'Woman does not exist' is not a result of the oppressive character of patriarchal society; on the contrary, it is patriarchal society (with its oppression of women) which is a 'result' of the fact that 'Woman does not exist', a vast attempt to deal with and 'overcome' this fact, to make it pass unnoticed."

[Alenka Zupancic, Ethics of the Real, p.132]