• To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

  Simone de Beauvoir
  French writer and philosopher 1908-1986
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. different
2. passive
3. thing
4. being

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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. by : Simone de Beauvoir

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