I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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