“Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.”
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, p. 122.
“The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.”
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Simone de Beauvoir
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The Second Sex
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