

“One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about. My guess is that it's just a gigantic hoax, invented to keep people quiet and diverted. Everyone talks about love: the priests, the advertising posters, the literati, and the politicians, those of them who make love. And in speaking of love and offering it as a panacea for every tragedy, they would and betray and kill both body and soul.”
― Letter to a Child Never Born
― Letter to a Child Never Born

“...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
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