Simone de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir asks what freedom can mean after alibis, idols, and innocence have fallen.
Portrait: Simone de Beauvoir in 1967. Moshe Milner, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.
Philosopher1908–1986
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir was a French philosopher, novelist, and memoirist, and one of the founders of modern feminism. The Second Sex argued that one is not born, but becomes, a woman, and her late book Old Age broke a silence of its own, asking why a society that hides its old people away cannot face what it does to them.
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