Rowan

“The feminine body is expected to be flesh, but discreetly so;”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“And yet we are told that femininity is in danger; we are exhorted to be women, remain women, become women. It would appear, then, that every female human being is not necessarily a woman; to be so considered she must share in that mysterious and threatened reality known as femininity. Is this attribute something secreted by the ovaries? Or is it Platonic essence, a product of the philosophic imagination? Is a rustling petticoat enough to bring it down to earth?”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Prime of Life