Simone de Beauvoir

Today I will speak about Simone de Beauvoir, French thinker and novelist, representative of the atheistic existentialist movement and an important figure in the demand for women's rights. Simone de Beauvoir founded with some feminists the Women's Rights League, which set out to react firmly to any sexist discrimination at the time, also wrote The Second Sex (1949) which meant a theoretical starting point for different feminist groups, and became a classic work of contemporary thought. The first time I heard about Simone de Beauvoir was at the age of 15, thanks to my aunt, who read her texts from a very young age. If I had the opportunity to interview her, I would ask her how she sees the maturation of the feminist movement after the publication of her book "The Second Sex" in terms of her own trajectory, or what is her conception of love, especially because she maintained an open relationship with her 20-year-old partner: Jean-Paul Sartre. I find it very interesting because she is a key figure in feminism, she criticized the oppression to which women are subjected by the male sex and the way society is organized. My favorite phrase from Simone is: "The day a woman can love not with her weakness but with her strength, not to escape from herself but to meet, not to humiliate herself but to affirm herself, that day love will be for her, as for the man, source of life and not a mortal danger".