It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. – W. Somerset Maugham
On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself — on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life… – Simone de Beauvoir
