That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRModern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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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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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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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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