Amanda

“I should like this sky, this quiet water, to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”
― Roseanne Barr

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”
― Irina Dunn