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• ‟ Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

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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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• ‟ In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

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• ‟ This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.

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• ‟ It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

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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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• ‟ Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

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• ‟ All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them.

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