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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Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.Simone de Beauvoir
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
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To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability, to go a little beyond them to dare, to seek, to invent it is at such a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized.
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One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
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