Word: motherish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Certain Pleasure. The portrait adorns the wrapper of this book, which is the third and presumably final installment in the memoirs of the most relentlessly intellectual and ungrand-motherish woman in France. Simone de Beauvoir has no husband and no children; by design, she has denied herself the rewards, or the burdens, of maternity. The smile is unreal, put on, perhaps, for the photographer; she cannot accept or endure the fact that she is now 57. Her mortality has obsessed her for a generation. "Since 1944, the most important, the most irreparable thing that has happened to me is that...
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