On January 9, 1908, he was born Simone de Beauvoir. Coming from a bourgeois Parisian family with strict Christian morals, the future writer’s childhood and youth education took place in different French Catholic schools. In those years, she stood out for her intellectual abilities, which caused her to finish first in her class each year. But the turn in the young woman occurred in adolescence, she rebelled against her family faith, she declared herself an atheist and considered that religion was a way to subjugate human beings.
Although her beginnings at work were in the field of teaching as a Philosophy professor, it was in that field that she met her partner, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The relationship between the two philosophers was very different from the couples of the time. Beavoir made the future Nobel Prize nominee aware of his bisexuality, that he would never marry, would never have children, and they agreed to have other romantic ties while maintaining the relationship. The first novel published by the writer was “The Guest” of 1943.
The beginning of the intellectual life of Simone de Beauvoir He would have a permanent dialogue with his partner, politics and the world context. “The blood of others” (1944) and “The mandarins” (1954) were the books that followed him in his production. However, his essay “The second sex” (1949), stood out throughout the Parisian intellectual atmosphere, proclaiming her as an ideological prophet of feminism. Her commitment to her most audacious writings in various publications in the 1960s, a temporary scenario that would take as its hinge the so-called “French May”would put the writer as a reference for innovative ideals that are still maintained in different societies around the world.
Among all his writings, ten quotes provide an overview of his most critical thinking.
“Feminism is a way of living individually and fighting collectively.”
“Let nothing limit us. Let nothing define us. Let nothing subject us. Let freedom be our own substance.”
“No one is more arrogant, violent, aggressive and disdainful towards women than a man insecure about his own virility.”
“Abortion is an integral part of evolution in nature and human history. This is not an argument for or against, but rather an undeniable fact. There is no town, nor era where abortion was not practiced legally or illegally.” .
“The day a woman can love not with her weakness but with her strength, not escape from herself but find herself, not humiliate herself but affirm herself, that day love will be for her, as for man, a source of life and not a danger.” mortal”.
“Through work, women have been able to bridge the distance that separates them from men. Work is the only thing that can guarantee them complete freedom.”
“Never forget that a political, economic or religious crisis will be enough for women’s rights to be questioned again. These rights are never taken for granted, they must remain vigilant throughout life.”
“I’m too smart, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to take full charge of me. Nobody knows me or loves me completely. “I only have myself.”
“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be able to love a woman or a man; to any of them, to a human being, without feeling fear, restriction or obligation.”
“No biological, physical or economic destiny defines the figure that the human female takes on within society; “Civilization as a whole is the one that produces that intermediate product between the male and the castrated, which is described as feminine.”
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