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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

To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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Art Husband Marriage
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
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Place Waste
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
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
The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.
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Hope Philosophy World
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.
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Oppression Protection
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Demand Sacrifice War
Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.
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Existence Freedom Spring Value
The body is the instrument of our hold on the world.
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Body Spiritual World
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
Modern woman is everywhere permitted to regard her body as capital for exploitation.
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Body Herself Woman
What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Age Children Perspective
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
Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.
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Creation Lost Love Youth
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

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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