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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Simone de Beauvoir

Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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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Father Invention
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
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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Acceptance Man
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself

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