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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 9
Died: 1986
Died: April 14
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