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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#freedom #human #human life #i #i wish

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

#being #defined #female #human #human being

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#any #civilization #different #equivalent #german

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

#does #dying #itself #life #living

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. ↗

— John Bolton

#best #broadly #decide #done #instruments

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

#always #been #explanation #man #none

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#because #fellow #find #involved #just

Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#changing #clothing #descriptions #despised #drew

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#certain #certain point #failure #get #i

Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#being #girl #i #partly #perceived