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

Simone de Beauvoir

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
But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Feeling Impossible Sacrifice
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
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Body Philosophy World
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
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?
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Fantasy Perspective
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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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Creation Easy Thinking World
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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Knowledge Oneself Story

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