It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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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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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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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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