Helena

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
― Simone de Beauvoir