It is easier to put people in chains than to remove them if the chains bring prestige, said George Bernard Shaw.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIRWhat is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.
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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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You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.
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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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Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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It is so tiring to hate someone you love.
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She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.
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Death itself does not frighten me; it is the jump I am afraid of.
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Weakness’ is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.
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If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
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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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To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
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