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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

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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Life Literature Place Religion
It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
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Easy People
If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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Blame Character Yourself
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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Born Oneself Woman
History took hold of me and never let me go thereafter.
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History Let Go Myself
If the feminine issue is so absurd, is because the male’s arrogance made it a discussion.
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Arrogant Mad Man
To will oneself moral and to will oneself free are one and the same decision.
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Decision Freedom Oneself Willing
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me.
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Blessing Greatness Love Myself
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
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Body Confidence Lose Oneself
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
A man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex; it goes without saying that he is a man.
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Beginning Himself Man Sex
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.
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Life Oneself Value

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