Why did I love this book?
"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman," wrote Simone de Beauvoir in 1949 in her bestseller The Second Sex.
To sum up this famous quotation, it's not because you are a woman that you should enjoy cooking or doing the dishes.
We always link Simone de Beauvoir to Sartre but Simone decided who she wanted to be before meeting Jean-Paul. This is what the British author Kate Kirkpatrick tells us in this new biography.
Believe me, there are never enough biographies about Simone de Beauvoir, the iconic French feminist.
You think Simone de Beauvoir is old-fashioned? "Never forget that it will be enough for a political, economic, or religious crisis for the rights of women to be called into question. These rights are never acquired. You will have to remain vigilant throughout your life."
Simone de Beauvoir could not be more right.
2 authors picked Becoming Beauvoir as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
"One is not born a woman, but becomes one", Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short. Her liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has been billed as one of the most legendary love affairs of the twentieth century. But for Beauvoir it came at a cost: for decades she was dismissed as an unoriginal thinker who…