Simone de Beauvoir. The second floor (№ 451656)

Where can a woman get such qualities as courage, zeal, disinterestedness, greatness? After all, these qualities are born by freedom of choice, a wide open future, above any given. And a woman is imprisoned in the walls of a kitchen or a boudoir and they are surprised that, you see, she has a narrow mindset, a limited worldview; her wings are clipped and at the same time they regret that she does not fly. Let the future open before her, and she will not need to cling to the present.