Simone de Beauvoir; the French feminist existentialist
My Namesake & Quotes by Her:
“One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
“The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project”
“To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it’s hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody”
“To protest in the name of morality against ‘excesses’ or ‘abuses’ is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no ‘abuses’ or ‘excesses’ here, simpily an all-pervasive system.”