It is rare to see in the woman a taste for adventure, gratuitous experience, or disinterested curiosity; she seeks “to build a career” the way others construct a happy life
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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Author Simone de Beauvoir
Source The Second Sex
Topic curiosity adventure
Date 1949
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Borde and 
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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