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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.

Simone de Beauvoir

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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Human Man Woman
Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Literature Reality Revenge Slave
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Man Philosophy
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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Hurt Sin Smile Tears
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
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.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman

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