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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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Be Yourself Oneself Philosophy
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Admire Love Necessary Self Love
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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Freedom Moral Winner
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge

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