To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRIf so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.
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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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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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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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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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