It wasn’t something she chose. She hadn’t volunteered to die with noble womanly honour or be a shining example, but nobody mentioned that.
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
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“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
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“That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
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“If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male's arrogance made it "a discussion”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
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