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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.

Simone de Beauvoir

If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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Expression Female Genius History
I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.
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Judgement Love Myself Relationship Time
The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning.
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Character Game Human Life Teaching Win
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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Comfortable Love Myself Safety Truth
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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Knowledge Live Ourselves Reason Strength
One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
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Fade Happiness Memories Oneself Scars Sun Wait Wound
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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Acceptance Adventure End Life Myself
One of the benefits that oppression secures for the oppressor is that the humblest among them feels superior.
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Feeling Humble Oppression Secure
The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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Oppression Philosophy Strong
If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I’d shake it off.
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Earth Myself
Man may reproach women for their dissimulation, but his complacency must be great indeed for him to be so constantly duped.
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Greatness Himself Man Woman
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
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Compassion Friendship Life Love Oneself Value
I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.
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Feeling Happiness Myself Reason
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value

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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