"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman……" — Simone de Beauvoir
"Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority."
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206 Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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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,…
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human…
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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.
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The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the…
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or…
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
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All oppression creates a state of war.
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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that…
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We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to…
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This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of…
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It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the customary practice…
— Peter Canisius
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The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share…
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A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks…
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Hiring people with diverse backgrounds brings in a flexibility of thought and openness to new ways of doing things, as…
— Yvon Chouinard
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If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never…
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People are so codified - it's sad.
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Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
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To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial,…
— Raymond Sokolov
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Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone…
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