Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRMan is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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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.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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