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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.

Simone de Beauvoir

Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
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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Love Perspective Understand
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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Body Naked True Yourself
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.
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Confidence Eyes Himself See Yourself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking
Society 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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Care Life Price Profit Young
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
Literature took the place in my life that had once been occupied by religion: it absorbed me entirely, and transfigured my life.
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Life Literature Place Religion
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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Feeling Generosity Myself True
If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat.
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Defeat Enough Live Victory Yourself
Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.
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Death Hard Time Live
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare

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