Literature · Reflection
HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY ~ 8 March 2019
8 March 2019
Some quotes by writer Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir 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.
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