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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

Simone de Beauvoir

That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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Children Value Woman
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
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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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Attachment Enjoyment Himself Man Woman
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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Act Change Future Life Yourself
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

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