Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth9 January 1908
CountryFrance
men facts assuming
The innumerable conflicts that set men and women against one another come from the fact that neither is prepared to assume all the consequences of this situation which the one has offered and the other accepted.
beautiful witch has-beens
Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.
silence speech saying-nothing
Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.
feel-good tragedy boring
Tragedies are all right for a while: you are concerned, you are curious, you feel good. And then it gets repetitive, it doesn't advance, it grows dreadfully boring: it is so very boring, even for me.
daughter father expectations
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.