It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.
[C’est effrayant de penser qu’on marque ses enfants rien que par ce qu’on est.]
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French author, existentialist philosopher, feminist theorist
Les Belles Images, ch. 3 (1966) [tr. O’Brian (1968)]
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