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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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
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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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
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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Human Man Woman
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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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman

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