women are, among human beings, merely those who are arbitrarily designated by the word “woman”
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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