Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRTo be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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I enjoyed my exhaustion, though; I liked overdoing things.
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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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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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One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
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All success cloaks a surrender.
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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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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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.
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People seem to think that if you keep your head empty you automatically fill your balls.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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