masculine reasoning is not relevant to the reality she experiences. And in the man’s world, since she does not do anything, her thinking, as it does not flow into any project, is no different from a dream; she does not have the sense of truth, because she lacks efficacy; she struggles only by means of images and words
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Author Simone de Beauvoir
Source The Second Sex
Topic reality truth
Date 1949
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Borde and 
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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