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 BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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 is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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