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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.

Simone de Beauvoir

Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
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
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Love Perspective Understand

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