Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHe reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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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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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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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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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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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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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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