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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern

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Simone de Beauvoir
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Approximate author period: c. 1947 AD · modern
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