The woman does not positively think that the truth is other than what men claim: rather, she holds that there is no truth. It is not only life’s becoming that makes her suspicious of the principle of identity, nor the magic phenomena surrounding her that ruin the notion of causality
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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