Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.Simone de Beauvoir
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself -- on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life . . .
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One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
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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.
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
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