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Simone de Beauvoir

"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."

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"Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to."

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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"A rubber plant is just about the ideal family."

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"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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"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."

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"One is not born a woman, but becomes one."

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

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"What is an adult? A child blown up by age."

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

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"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."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"Capabilities are clearly manifested only when they have been realized."

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

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"Buying is a profound pleasure."

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