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Women's mutual understanding comes from the fact that they identify themselves with each other but for the same reason each is against the others.
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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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death.
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But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
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