Simone de Beauvoir
"Men of today seem to feel more acutely than ever the paradox of their condition. They know themselves to be the supreme end to which all action should be subordinated, but the exigencies of action force them to treat one another as instruments or obstacles, as means. The more widespread their mastery of the world, the more they find themselves crushed by uncontrollable forces...In spite of so many stubborn lies, at every moment, at every opportunity, the truth comes to light, the truth of life and death, of my solitude and my bond with the world, of my freedom and servitude, of the insignificance and the sovereign importance of each man and all men...Since we do not succeed in fleeing it, let us therefore try to look truth in the face. Let us try to assume our fundamental ambiguity. It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reason for acting."
                                                                 - Simone de Beauvoir


Links

de Beauvoir page by Katharena E
de Beauvoir page by Dina
Existentialism, Sartre and Beauvoir by Dina
de Beauvoir bio at The Window
de Beauvoir page by Ron
de Beauvoir bio by Garth Kemerling
de Beauvoir at The Cry
de Beauvoir at Encyclopedia.com
de Beauvoir at Encarta
de Beauvoir at Gale Group
de Beauvoir--Woman of the Week
Brief bio of de Beauvoir
de Beauvoir timeline
de Beauvoir bibliography compiled by Theodore A. Toadvine, Jr., Ph.D.
de Beauvoir Quotes to Inspire & Motivate You
Thoughts on Love, Self and Soul by Simone de Beauvoir
Interview with Simone de Beauvoir by John Gerassi, "The Second Sex 25 Years Later"
Lecture notes on Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity
"Is The Second Sex Beauvoir's Application of Sartrean Existentialism?" by Margaret A. Simons
"The Making of an Intellectual Woman" by Tori Moi
"Basic Historical Issues in Feminism: An Introduction to The Second Sex" by Ian Johnston
"Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Jean-Paul Sartre" by Dorothy Kaufmann McCall
"Men's Liberation" by Russell McNeil
"Letter-Writing: A Tool in Feminist Inquiry" by Ann Margaret Sharp
"Simone de Beauvoir in Relation to Howard Gardner's Model of Creativity" by Molly Beverstein
"Abortion's Mother: Early Works of Simone de Beauvoir" by Germain Kopaczynski, O.F.M.Conv.
Simone de Beauvoir photo gallery
Simone de Beauvoir Live Cabin Chat

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