Woman does not have the option of transforming her flesh into will: when she stops hiding it, she gives it up without defenses
 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation

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