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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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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Break Magic Sex Woman
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective

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