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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

Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
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
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 wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Freedom Human Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

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