Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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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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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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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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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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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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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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