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Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support—all these encourage women to ardently want...more

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The thing that attracted me about philosophy was that it went straight to essentials. I had never liked fiddling detail; I perceived the general signi...more

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Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: here again, to go beyond the given, one must be deepl...more

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Authentic love must be founded on reciprocal recognition of two freedoms...

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In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that their wives dema...more

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Weakness' is weakness only in light of the aims man sets for himself, the instruments at his disposal and the laws he imposes.

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What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.