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There is an art to “catching a husband”: “keeping” him is a profession.

Source:Volume II: Lived Experience, Part Two: Situation, Chapter 5: The Married Woman
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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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