Simone de Beauvoir
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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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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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
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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.
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.