Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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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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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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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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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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