"In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider."
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"all success cloaks a surrender"
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"To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity."
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"If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?"
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"I'm not against mothers. I am against the ideology which expects every woman to have children, and I'm against the circumstances under which mothers have to have their children."
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"I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism."
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"Whether you think of it as heavenly or as earthly, if you love life immortality is no consolation for death."
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"--There you are. The sight of the changing world is miraculous and heartbreaking, both at the same time. --But so it is for me too. The heartbreaking side of growing old is not in the things around one but in oneself."
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"Those interested in perpetuating present conditions are always in tears about the marvelous past that is about to disappear, without having so much as a smile for the young future."
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"The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other."
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"This is certainly a very tricky point: How to ally yourself to other leftist forces without losing your feminist specificity."
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"What would Prince Charming have for occupation if he had not to awaken the Sleeping beauty?"
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"Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination."
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"Jealousy is not contemptible, real love has a beak and claws."
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"The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams."
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"I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short."
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"The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming."
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"The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die."
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"Some things I loved have vanished. A great many others have been given to me"
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"She was not to look beyond herself for the meaning of her life."
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