One is not born a woman, but becomes one.
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.Simone de Beauvoir
It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood.
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If you live long enough, you'll see every victory turn into a defeat.
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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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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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