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It is not in giving life but in risking his life that man raises himself above the animal; this is why throughout humanity, superiority has been granted not to the sex that gives birth but to the one that kills.

Source:Volume I: Facts and Myths, Part One: Destiny, Chapter 2
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Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex Quotes
  • Book: The Second Sex
  • Writer: Simone de Beauvoir
  • Genre: Feminism, Philosophy
  • Published: 1949
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