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Simone de Beauvoir: It's frightening to...

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It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

Source: Les Belles Images, ch. 3 (1966; tr. 1968).
-- Simone de Beauvoir, (Jan 9 1908-1986), French writer; She was noted for her attack on the inferior role of women in The Second Sex, 1949.


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