Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRI tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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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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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.
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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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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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