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...I was your luxury. For nineteen years I have been put in your man’s world and was forbidden to touch anything and you made me think that all was going very well and that I did not have to worry about anything but putting flowers in vases. Why did you lie to me? Why did you keep me ignorant, if it was to admit to me one day that this world is cracking and that you are all powerless and to make me choose between a suicide and a murder? - Jean-Paul Sartre
Attribution: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French novelist, dramatist, philosopher, political activist. Methuen (1963). Jessica to Hugo in Dirty Hands, act 5, sc. 2, Gallimard (1948).

Categories: Dramatist, Men And Women, Philosopher, Political Activist, Sexism

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