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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes: When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
         

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.


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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].



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