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

Simone de Beauvoir

One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
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 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
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself 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
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man

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

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