It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRAll oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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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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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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