If a little beauty and intelligence are often enough for a woman to feel endowed with a holy character, it is even more so when she knows she is God’s chosen; she feels filled with a mission
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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