The second sex reading notes

Bassinet
Puny
Treatise
Misogyny
Witter
Highbrow
Proustian:
1) lengthy and cumbersome writing style
2) recollection or memory triggered by something in the present
3) arty and highbrow
Dowry
Indelible
Martyrdom
Surrogate
Virillity
Facade
Shabby
Transcendent
Tenacious
Indolent
Slumming
Louche
Nobiliary
A particle in their surnames
Pimply
Sinecure
Regal
Plait
Duenna
Coif
Piquantly
At odds
Sunder
Contigent
Pharaonic
Incestuous
Deity
Prolific
Seethe
Epithet
Wary
Cult
Finitude
Undue
Magisterial
Aphorist
Lapidary
Prose
Manic
Garrulity
Stamina
Juggle
Entourage
Transatlantic
Despotic
Insidious
Subjugation
Stagger
Repudiate
Blinkered
Generality
Visceral
Marshal
Arsenal
Voluptuous
Elusive
While no one individual or her work is responsible for that seismic shift in laws and attitudes, the millions of young women who now confidently assume that their entitlement to work, pleasure and autonomy is equal to that of their brothers owe a measure of their freedom to Beauvoir. The second sex was an act of Promethean audacity -- a theft of Olympian fire -- from which there was no turning back,
Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause.