the husband is the perfect victim. He embodies the masculine universe, it is through him that the male society took the woman in hand and duped her; he bears the weight of the world, and if things go wrong, it is his fault.
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Author Simone de Beauvoir
Source The Second Sex
Topic society women
Date 1949
Language English
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Note Translated by Constance Borde and 
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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