No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society must be altered so that women are not dependent on men and so that children are not dependent on women.
— Simone de Beauvoir Modern

Feminist existentialism

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The Second Sex

Date / Period

1949

Category

Strange & Unusual

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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/24718-no-woman-should-be-authorized-to-stay-at-…

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