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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

Simone de Beauvoir

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 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
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
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
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
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
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
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
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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Courage Fight Happiness Knowledge
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
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Ability Inspirational Worth
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
People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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Empty People Thinking

If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.

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