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Beauty Is a Wound
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Simone de Beauvoir
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
Simone de Beauvoir

bell hooks
“Everything is bearable when there is love. My wish is that you try to give more people more love. The only thing that lives forever is love.” The female search for love is what life should be all about.”
bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love – A Profound Vision for Self-Love, Sisterhood, Liberation, and Emotional Growth

Simone de Beauvoir
“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion”
Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir
“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.”
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

bell hooks
“Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?”
bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

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