I told myself that as long as there were books I could be sure of being happy.

Simone de Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Also known as: Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
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Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French author and existentialist philosopher. She is now most famous for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex [Le Deuxième Sexe], a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism, and her long personal relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre.

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إن المرأة الحقيقية ليست في الواقع سوى منتوج اصطناعي, صنعته الحضارة السائدة. و إذا ثارت المرأة على هذه المفاهيم أو شعرت بنقصها فاختارت أن تكون فرداً كاملاً, فإنها تعد متحررة عن مجتمعها و جنسها, و اتهمهاالناس بالاسترجال, لأن الطبيعة الأنثوية في عرف المجتمع تعني النقصان و الخضوع.

N’oubliez jamais qu’il suffira d’une crise politique, économique ou religieuse pour que les droits des femmes soient remis en question. Ces droits ne sont jamais acquis. Vous devrez rester vigilantes votre vie durant.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.