That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI 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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Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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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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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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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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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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