"If her functioning as a female is not……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?"
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206 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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