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The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.

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Between women love is contemplative; caresses are intended less to gain possession of the other than gradually to re-create the self through her; separateness is abolished, there is no struggle, no victory, no defeat; in exact reciprocity each is at once subject and object, sovereign and slave; duality become mutuality.

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He was living like an engineer in a mechanical world. No wonder he had become dry as a stone.

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The American woman's inequality with men is proved by her defiant attitude.

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It's very hard to review one's past without cheating a little.

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My studies gave me only a very superficial knowledge of philosophy but sharpened my interest in it. I benefited greatly from being a teacher—that is, from being able to spend a great deal of time reading, writing and educating myself.

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Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

Born: January 9, 1908

Died: April 14, 1986 (aged 78)

Bio: Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.

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