Simone de Beauvoir

• Existentialist philosopher

• Engaged in a relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre

• Studied and analysed gender as a social construct

• Influenced the feminist activist movement

One is not born, rather, becomes a woman.

...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

J’accepte la grande aventure d’être moi.

This reminds me of something Frida

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Polyamory

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life.