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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Simone de Beauvoir

Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Care Life Price Profit Young
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

Independent Intelligence Love Myself
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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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Beginning Himself Man Sex
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Fantasy Perspective
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Knowledge Oneself Story
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Creation Lost Love Youth
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beyond Herself Life See
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Himself Law Light Man Weakness

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