Many women do not abandon themselves to love unless they are loved in return: and the love they are shown is sometimes enough to make them fall in love.
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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