Gerald Bivens

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But since the coming of patriarchy, life in man's eyes has taken on a dual aspect: it is consciousness, will, transcendence, it is intellect; and it is matter, passivity, immanence, it is flesh.1

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  1. Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (New York: Vintage Books, 2011), 163.