Simone de Beauvoir

"There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what I was writing and I meant the opposite; reading them again I feel completely lost...I was lying to myself. How I lied to myself!"

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Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir

Philosopher, Writer

Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher and feminist, known for her influential work 'The Second Sex' that critiques women's oppression.

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"The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power."

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