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Simone de Beauvoir Quotes: There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.
         

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.


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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.



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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.



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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.



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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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All oppression creates a state of war.



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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.



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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.



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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.



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When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].





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