Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRCapabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.
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When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
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She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.
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When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
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Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
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To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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