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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.   Beauvoir, Simone De


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Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908 April 14, 1986) was a French author, philosopher, and feminist. The scope of her work is broad; she was a novelist, political theorist, essayist, as well as biographer and autobiographer. She is best known for her work Le Deuxime Sexe (The Second Sex, 1949) which contained detailed analysis of women's oppression. · Can we improve this biography? Post your version

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