Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Source: The Woman Destroyed
“There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.”
Musings of Anita Blake; p. 627
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)
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