All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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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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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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