Sublime

Simone de Beauvoir. Outre son travail dans le champ du féminisme et de la fiction, dans ses écrits philosophiques elle explora comment les deux forces de la contrainte et de la liberté jouent au fil de nos vies, alors que chacun de nous devient lentement soi-même.

If woman discovers herself as the inessential and never turns into the essential, it is because she does not bring about this transformation herself.

Man thinks himself without woman. Woman does not think herself without man.”

Certainly woman like man is a human being; but such an assertion is abstract; the fact is that every concrete human being is always uniquely situated.

Simone de Beauvoir too wrote fiction, broadcasts, diaries, essays and philosophical treatises — all united by a philosophy that was often close to Sartre’s, though she had developed much of it separately and her emphasis differed.

everything that particularizes

Lawmakers, priests, philosophers, writers, and scholars have gone to great lengths to prove that women’s subordinate condition

the woman’s body seems devoid