Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
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I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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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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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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