In the introduction to "The Second Sex" (1949), de Beauvoir writes that the "drama of woman" lies in the conflict between the individual experience of the self and the collective experience of womanhood. To herself, a woman is inherently central and essential. To society, she is inessential, secondary, defined on the terms of her relationship to men.
-Jia Tolentino
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