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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Simone de Beauvoir

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
I would have to have a bit of heroism and get out of myself. But I love myself so much!
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Myself Self Love
Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.
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Acceptance Man
Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
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Herself Man Slave Woman Empowerment
Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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Blame Fly Herself Wings
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
There’s something tragic about you. Your feeling for the absolute. You were made to believe in God and spend your life in a convent.
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Believe Feeling God Life Religion Tragedy Yourself
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
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Age Existence Life Mad Oneself
Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Death Myself Scare
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

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