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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

Simone de Beauvoir

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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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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Himself Law Light Man Weakness
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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Anger Man Woman
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
I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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Enjoyment Myself
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
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
Sex pleasure in women is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
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Break Magic Sex Woman
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

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