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Simone de Beauvoir

“Misogynists have often reproached intellectual women for 'letting themselves go'; but they also preach to them: if you want to be our equals, stop wearing makeup and polishing your nails. This advice is absurd. Precisely because the idea of femininity is artificially defined by customs and fashion, it is imposed on every woman from the outside[...]. The individual is not free to shape the idea of femininity at will.”

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
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The Second Sex The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
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