Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent…

Simone de Beauvoir
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1969). The Woman Destroyed, HarperCollins Publishers
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir (1969). The Woman Destroyed, HarperCollins Publishers

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