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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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A man would never get the notion of writing a book on the peculiar situation of the human male.
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It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.
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I am not at all for a feminism which is entirely separatist, which would say, this domain is purely for women. I don't believe that at all.
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