"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.“


-Simone de Beauvoir

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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.

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