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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

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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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Human Man Woman
He reflected. ‘I know a lot of different kids of people; what I want is to show each of them how the others really are. You hear so many lies!
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Different Himself Lie People Reflection
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
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Death Life Live
Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands – two equally harmful disciplines.
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Discipline Man Woman
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life.
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Beyond Herself Life See
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value
All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.
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Creation Oppression War
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
She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Change Fall Herself Touch
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 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 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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Love Perspective Understand
Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms.
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Freedom Love Philosophy

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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