Simone de Beauvoir

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born

January 09, 1908 in Paris, France

died

April 14, 1986

gender

female

website

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Politics

influences

Descartes, Wollstonecraft, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Kierkegaard, Heidegge...more

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"Simone de Beauvoir was a French author and philosopher. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiography. She is now best known for her metaphysical novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, and for her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism."

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Average rating: 3.94 · 15,381 ratings · 950 reviews · 105 distinct works

	The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, H.M. Parshley (Translator & Editor), Deirdre Bair (Introduction) 3.93 avg rating — 6,737 ratings — published 1949 — 47 editions	My rating:
	Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir, James Kirkup (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 1,091 ratings — published 1958 — 39 editions	My rating:
	The Mandarins 4.01 avg rating — 945 ratings — published 1954 — 25 editions	My rating:
	The Ethics of Ambiguity 4.05 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 1948 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick O'Brian (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 946 ratings — published 1386 — 26 editions	My rating:
	All Men are Mortal 3.96 avg rating — 839 ratings — published 1974 — 16 editions	My rating:
	She Came to Stay 3.89 avg rating — 748 ratings — published 1943 — 24 editions	My rating:
	A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir, Patrick O'Brian (translator) 3.85 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 1964 — 24 editions	My rating:
	The Blood of Others 3.81 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1945 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Letters to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir, Quintin Hoare (Editor) 3.97 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: feminism

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“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

tags: feminism , philosophy

186 people liked it

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

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