Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRSociety 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.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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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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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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