Tomat0 quoted The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
These difficulties are more obvious for the independent woman because she has chosen not resignation but combat. All living problems find a silent solution in death; so a woman who works at living is more torn than one who buries her will and desires; but she will not accept being offered this as an example. She will consider herself at a disadvantage only when she compares herself with man.
— The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (Page 939)