Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (1949)

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To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

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What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?

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It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her 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 and not of mortal danger.

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All agree in recognising the fact that females exist in the human species; today as always they make up about one half of humanity. And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity.

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Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized.

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