Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Consequences
  • Accepted