Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• I admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Women
  • Thinker
  • Disastrous