Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRRepresentation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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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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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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No 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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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