Simone De Beavoir

Of the legion of women who toy with arts and letters, very few persevere; and even those who pass this first obstacle will very often continue to be torn between their narcissism and an inferiority complex. In ability to forget themselves is a defect that will weight more heavily upon them than upon women in any other career; if their essential aim is the formal satisfaction of success, they will not give themselves over to the contemplation of the world; they will be incapable of re-creating in it art.