Becoming Beauvoir Quotes

“Being a self involves perpetual change with others who are also changing, in a process of irreversible becoming.”
― Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

“In Force of Circumstance she wrote that its main theme was ‘the paradox of this existence experienced by me as my freedom and by those who came in contact with me as an object’. Her intention was not, she says, ‘apparent to”
― Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life

“What if becoming yourself simultaneously means being seen as a failure to be what you should be - a failure as a woman, or as a lover, or as a mother?”
― Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life