Simone de Beauvoir: that Face

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I found that the first question that came up was: 

of what significance was it to be a woman?

I thought I could quickly extricate myself from the question.

I never had any feeling of inferiority...

(later) I had a revelation: this world was a masculine world,

my childhood had been nourished by myths forged by men...

photograph by the incomparable Irving Penn
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