Josefine

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“Fear not! ' said a strange voice be­hind him. Frodo turned and saw Strider, and yet not Strider; for the weath­er­worn Ranger was no longer there. In the stern sat Aragorn son of Arathorn, proud and erect, guid­ing the boat with skil­ful strokes; his hood was cast back, and his dark hair was blow­ing in the wind, a light was in his eyes: a king re­turn­ing from exile to his own land.”
― Tolkien J.R.R.

“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses