Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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 lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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