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Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir 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.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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