what is precious in woman is that something in her always escapes all embraces; so man is master of a reality that is all the more worthy of being mastered as it surpasses him.
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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