At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories. - Simone de Beauvoir

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Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness. " "No. " "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

Simone de Beauvoir

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

Emancipation, Moment, Moments, Needs, Women, Writing

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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.

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When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

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Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them;. . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.

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Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness. " "No. " "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.

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Indeed, if I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes - in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically speaking, for conservatives there's no downside to global warming.

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I left with nothing and needing to begin a new career.

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