I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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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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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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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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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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