To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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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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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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