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“self narrative, in bringing to light a dominant truth that it seeks in order to ensure a continuity of being, always neglects to consider the following: our failure to understand what we experience, at the moment we experience it; the opacity of the present, whereby every sentence and every assertion should be riddled by holes.”

“Her submission is not to him, but to an indisputable universal law: that of a savagery in the male to which she would have had to be subjected, sooner or later. That this law is brutal and dirty is just the way things are.”
“She has surrendered all will, entirely absorbed by his, and by his experience as a man”.
No other author I’ve ever read so precisely describes the experience of being a woman.