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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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Death Love Pay Regret Sin Yourself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History

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