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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvoir

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. - Simone de Beauvoir
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. -Alexis de Tocqueville
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. - Simone de Beauvoir
Art is an attempt to integrate evil. - Simone de Beauvoir
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. - Simone de Beauvoir
My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority. - Simone de Beauvoir
In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give,' brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!
The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it. — Tricia Cunningham