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“Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.”

Simone de Beauvoir · Society

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Simone de Beauvoir

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

Women

Simone de Beauvoir

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Truth

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.

Society

Simone de Beauvoir

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

Friendship