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. - Simone de Beauvoir

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. - 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

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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

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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. ― Robert Heinlein

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If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Let me tell you what justice is. Justice is the law. And that man's feeble attempt to lay down the principles of decent. ― Morgan Freeman

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Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein

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Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. - Simone de Beauvoir

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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

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