The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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