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Simone de Beauvoir
“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir
“Doomed to procreation and secondary tasks, stripped of her practical importance and her mystical prestige, woman becomes no more than a servant.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir
“Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir
“A woman alone always seems a little unusual; it is not true that men respect women: they respect each other through their women—wives, mistresses, “kept” women; when masculine protection no longer extends over her, woman is disarmed before a superior caste that is aggressive, sneering, or hostile. As an “erotic perversion,”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir
“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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