Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIROne is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consultation for death.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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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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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Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
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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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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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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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