Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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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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Modern 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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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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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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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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