Most men who get married have only in view reproduction, propriety, or what is due to the child; yet neither reproduction, propriety, nor the child constitute happiness.
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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