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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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Father Invention
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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Man Truth View World
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
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
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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Feeling Generosity Myself True
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
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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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
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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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

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