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Simone de Beauvoir

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French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)

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I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. Juliette Binoche

Convergent sources from close friends (Simone de Beauvoir, Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin) seem to leave little doubt about the fact that it is 20-year-old Merleau-Ponty behind the pseudonym Jacques Heller. Source: Internet

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir 's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France. Source: Internet

Simone de Beauvoir criticizes psychoanalysis from an existentialist standpoint in The Second Sex (1949), arguing that Freud saw an "original superiority" in the male that is in reality socially induced. Source: Internet

The philosopher and feminist Simone de Beauvoir applied existentialism to women's experience of life: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." de Beauvoir, Simone (1949) The Second Sex." Source: Internet

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