Philosophy: Simone de Beauvoir: Biography (English)

I wanted no more, at age fourteen, than to be an adopted lover of Sartre and de Beauvoir. Now, at twenty-one, I wish to overcome them, and will someday. Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, called Simone de Beauvoir (French pronunciation: [simɔn də boˈvwaʁ]; January 9, 1908 -- April 14, 1986), was a French writer, existentialist philosopher, feminist, Marxist,[1] and social theorist. She wrote novels, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues, essays, biographies, and an autobiog