It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.
C’est dans la connaissance des conditions véritables de notre vie qu’il nous faut puiser la force de vivre et des raisons d’agir.
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Simone de Beauvoir
Existentialist philosopher and feminist pioneer born in Paris in 1908. In The Second Sex she argued that womanhood is socially constructed, reshaping gender theory and grounding modern feminism.
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