Yoli

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Probablemente, sólo en un mundo de ciegos serán las cosas lo que realmente son,”
― José Saramago, Ensayo sobre la ceguera

“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

“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed