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Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.

Simone de Beauvoir

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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Break Up Hate Love
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
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
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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Acceptance Adventure Feeling Myself Scare Violence
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Mistake Myself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects.
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Existence Feeling Freedom
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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Independent Intelligence Love Myself
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself

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