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.

Simone de Beauvoir

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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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Simone de Beauvoir's Other Quotes

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

Let nothing define us. Let nothing subjugate us. Let freedom be our very substance.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

To will oneself free is already to have freed oneself.

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