It is impossible to do anything for anyone. - Simone de Beauvoir

But it is impossible for anyone to say ‘I am sacrificing myself’ without feeling bitterness.

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

To be gazed at is one danger; to be manhandled is another. Women as a rule are unfamiliar with violence, they have not been through the tussles of childhood and youth as have men; and now the girl is laid hold of, swept away in a bodily struggle in which the man is the stronger. She is no longer free to dream, to delay, to maneuver: she is in his power, at his disposal.