The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRNo one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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