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— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency."
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If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?
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