“ By nature, however, woman’s devotedness also enters into despair, is again a mode of despair. In devotion she loses herself, and only then is she happy, only then is she herself; a woman who is happy without devotion, that is,55 without giving her self, no matter to what she gives it, is altogether unfeminine. ”
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation