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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958)
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Born:
January 9, 1908
Died:
April 14, 1986
(aged 78)
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