The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the means of winning. - Simone de Beauvoir

"A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as instrument of her transcendence, but "an object destined for another.

I was no longer a vacant mind, an abstracted gaze, but the turbulent fragrance of the waving grain, the intimate smell of the heather moors, the dense heat of noon or the shiver of twilight; I was heavy; yet I was as vapour in the blue airs of summer and knew no bounds.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.