“ The worst curse on woman is her exclusion from warrior expeditions; it is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives birth but to the one that kills. ”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949). copy citation
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1949
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Translated by Constance Borde and
Sheila Malovany Chevallier
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