“It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.”

—  Simone de Beauvoir , book The Second Sex

The Second Sex (1949)

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