But women do not say 'We', except at some congress of feminists or similar formal demonstration; men say 'women', and women use the same word in referring to themselves.
Simone de BeauvoirLiterature in France seems to be undergoing a crisis now, and nothing comes immediately to mind.
Simone de BeauvoirSociety turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried in a conspiracy of silence. Old age exposes the failure of our entire civilization.
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