toilette quotes

La femme†sait que quand on la regarde on ne la distingue pas de son apparence: elle est juge¤  e, respecte¤  e, de¤  sire¤  e a'   travers sa toilette. Woman†knows that when she is looked at she is not considered apart from her appearance: she is judged, respected, desired, by and through her toilette.

-de Beauvoir, Simone
  Le Deuxie' m e Sexe (The Second Sex), bk.2, pt.7, ch.25 (translated by H M Parshley,1952).

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