Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRYou said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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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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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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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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All success cloaks a surrender.
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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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Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
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