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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRLife is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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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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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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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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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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