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From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

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“Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority-- it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney-- for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination-- over other people.”

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Book:A Room of One’s Own
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“I look in the glass sometimes at my two long, cylindrical bags (so picturesquely rugged about the knees), my stand-up collar and billycock hat, and wonder what right I have to go about making God's world hideous. Then wild and wicked thoughts come into my heart. I don't want to be good and respectable. (I never can be sensible, I'm told; so that don't matter.) I want to put on lavender-colored tights, with red velvet breeches and a green doublet slashed with yellow; to have a light-blue silk cloak on my shoulder, and a black eagle's plume waving from my hat, and a big sword, and a falcon, and a lance, and a prancing horse, so that I might go about and gladden the eyes of the people. Why should we all try to look like ants crawling over a dust-heap? Why shouldn't we dress a little gayly? I am sure if we did we should be happier. True, it is a little thing, but we are a little race, and what is the use of our pretending otherwise and spoiling fun? Let philosophers get themselves up like old crows if they like. But let me be a butterfly.”

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Book:Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
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“Men’s economic privilege, their social value, the prestige of marriage, the usefulness of masculine support—all these encourage women to ardently want to please men. They are on the whole still in a state of serfdom. It follows that woman knows and chooses herself not as she exists for herself but as man defines her. She thus has to be described first as men dream of her since her being-for-men is one of the essential factors of her concrete condition.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir
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“Böyle bir toplum, kimseye güç vermez. Güçlü erkek güçlü doğmamıştır, güçlü olma yolunda giderken kendisini yavaşlatan her şeyden feragat etmiştir ve seni büyüleyen budur. Sana bir kadın olarak sahip olduğun hiçbir erdemi terketmemen öğütlendiğinden, seni yavaşlatan şeylerle dolusundur ve bu bahsettiğim erkeği gördüğünde nasıl senin olamadığın kadar görkemli ve güçlü olduğuna, bir tavus kuşuna bakan küçük bir çocuğun gözleriyle bakıyor olacaksın. Onun gibi güçlü olmayı isteyeceksin, olamadığını gördüğünde, eğer öyle güçlü biri seni severse, en az onun kadar güçlü olacağına inanacaksın. Oysa bilmiyorsun: Öyle güçlü bir erkek, kimseyi sevemediği için öyle güçlüdür ve yanıldığını gördüğün an çok feci düşeceksin. O erkeği gördüğünde gözlerini kocaman, kötü cadıdan kaçan bir masal kahramanı gibi aç. Çünkü hayal kırıklığını bir yenisini kurarak, yaralarını ise sararak iyileştirebilirsin ama kalp kırığını göremeyeceksin. Göremediğin şeyden korkacaksın ve korkunun utanca, tükenişe dönüştüğüne şahit olurken büyüyen kırıkla birlikte, sen de en başta ilerliyor olman gereken yoldan geri dönemeyeceğin kadar uzakta olacaksın.”

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Book:Oda
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