Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhen you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.
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I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.
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To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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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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Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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