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author: '[[thoughts/Simone de Beauvoir|Simone de Beauvoir]]'
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description: the oppresion of women in society
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title: Le Deuxième Sexe
year: 1949
authors: '[[thoughts/Simone de Beauvoir|Simone de Beauvoir]]'
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## The Woman in Love

> \[!tip\] paradox of love
>
> _torture of the impossible love_
>
> where the woman wants to possess the man wholly, but also demands that he transcend any gift that could possibly be possessed. After all, we can’t possess people. Transcendence, freedom, those are not things that we can possess.

The woman in love also <span class="marker marker-h2">identify</span> the {{sidenotes[man.]: as the supreme goal of human love she thinks is _identification_ with the loved one.}} The woman in love doesn’t just want to serve a man whom she’s taught to think is <mark>superior</mark> to her, but also tries to see the world through his eyes.