To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRHer wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
More Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them.
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Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody.
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Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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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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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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The sin of smiling whilst Louise was weeping, the sin of shedding my own tears and not hers. The sin of being another being.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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