Feminist author Simone de Beauvoir, author of The Second Sex and existentialist partner of Sartre, went so far as to say that society should bar women from becoming mothers: “No woman should be authorized to stay at home to raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one. It is a way of forcing women in a certain direction.”22
