We will not let ourselves be intimidated by the number and violence of attacks against women; nor be fooled by the self-serving praise showered on the real woman; nor be won over by mens enthusiasm for her destiny, a destiny they would not for the world want to share.
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Simone de Beauvoir was a 20th-century French philosopher, social theorist and activist. Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Read more on Wikipedia →