All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRThe whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
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A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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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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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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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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Man 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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That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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