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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Love Perspective Understand
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Attitude Politics
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Life Literature Place Religion
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Admire Love Necessary Self Love
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Be Yourself Experience Oneself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Expression Female Genius History
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Oneself Woman
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Creation Easy Thinking World
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Change Fall Herself Touch
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Freedom Moral Winner
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself

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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