One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIREvery individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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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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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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