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Explore more quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."

"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

"I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me."

"Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself."

"The relation of woman to husband, of daughter to father, of sister to brother, is a relation of vassalage."
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