Sublime

Simone de Beauvoir. Outre son travail dans le champ du féminisme et de la fiction, dans ses écrits philosophiques elle explora comment les deux forces de la contrainte et de la liberté jouent au fil de nos vies, alors que chacun de nous devient lentement soi-même.

If woman discovers herself as the inessential and never turns into the essential, it is because she does not bring about this transformation herself.

Certainly woman like man is a human being; but such an assertion is abstract; the fact is that every concrete human being is always uniquely situated.

Simone de Beauvoir too wrote fiction, broadcasts, diaries, essays and philosophical treatises — all united by a philosophy that was often close to Sartre’s, though she had developed much of it separately and her emphasis differed.

Beauvoir paraissait plus sensible que Sartre à ces interzones subtiles de la vie humaine. Le Deuxième Sexe traite presque exclusivement du territoire complexe où le libre choix, la biologie et les facteurs sociaux et culturels se rencontrent et se mêlent pour créer un être humain qui, au fil de sa vie, s’accroche peu à peu à ses habitudes.

Humanity is male, and man defines woman, not in herself, but in relation to himself; she is not considered an autonomous being.

For Beauvoir, the greatest inhibition for women comes from their acquired tendency to see themselves as ‘other’ rather than as a transcendent subject.

French existentialist philosopher and fellow multipotentialite Simone de Beauvoir argued that freedom isn't just the absence of constraints; it's the act of consciously defining oneself.

This freedom comes with ethical responsibilities — to make choices that align with one's core values and consider their impact on the world.