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One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

Simone de Beauvoir

Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
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
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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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Father Invention
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
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
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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Attitude Politics
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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Darkness Past Philosophy Thinking
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
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

One can never know oneself but only narrate oneself.

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