“To "catch" a husband is an art; to "hold" him is a job.”

—  Simone de Beauvoir , book The Second Sex

Bk. 2, part 5, Ch. 1: The Married Woman, p. 468
Source: The Second Sex (1949)

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French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, po… 1908–1986

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