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

Simone de Beauvoir

Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Blame Fly Herself Wings
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Oneself Woman
You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Body Naked True Yourself
It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Break Up Hate Love
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Existence Freedom Spring Value
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Earth Myself
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Oppression Philosophy Strong
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Man Truth View World
I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

I Love You Mad Touch Tragedy
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Death Life Live
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Born Genius Impossible Oneself Presence
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Effort Separate Togetherness
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Beginning Himself Man Sex
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Age Children Perspective
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Father Invention

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