“Cooking is revelation and creation; and a woman can find special satisfaction in a successful cake or a flaky pastry, for not every one can do it: one must have the gift.”

—  Simone de Beauvoir , book The Second Sex

Bk. 2, part 5, Ch. 1: The Married Woman, p. 506
The Second Sex (1949)

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