The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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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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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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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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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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