A Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed externally very well - Stendhal's Madame de Renal, for example - but only as seen from the outside.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Simone de Beauvoir
French - Writer
January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986

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