Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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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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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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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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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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