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Counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

Simone de Beauvoir

If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
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Effort Separate Togetherness
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
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
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Existence Herself Love Space Time
If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
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
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
A day in which I don’t write leaves a taste of ashes.
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Myself Poet Taste Writing
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
All success cloaks a surrender.
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Success
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
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman

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