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Simone et moi
14 January 2008 in Feminism, Opinion Comment
Mother courage – Lynne Segal
* Simone et moi: She truly lived the ideal, and the pain, of an politically autonomous woman, becoming the role model of a generation in the 1960s
Letting down the sisterhood – Joan Smith
* Simone et moi: She was a pioneering feminist and a ground-breaking intellectual, but I just don’t think I would have liked De Beauvoir
Une magnifique folie à deux – AC Grayling
* Simone et moi: High-minded tutting about the infamous Sartre-De Beauvoir relationship will never overshadow her work
State of independence – Elizabeth Fallaize
* Simone et moi: Her work still resonates with women because the struggle between autonomy and femininity De Beauvoir described continues
An experiment in living – Lisa Appignanesi
* Simone et moi: De Beauvoir’s life was a project weighed with an intelligence that still speaks to us, louder even than today’s celebrity gossip
100 years young – Agnes Poirier
* Simone et moi: The lady in a turban is still revered in France and respected as an intellectual above all else
Source of inspiration – Beatrix Campbell
* Simone et moi: De Beauvoir was a celebrity, not because of her love life but because she belonged to an intelligentsia which no longer exists
If interested you can read these opinions by using the following link http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/category/simone_et_moi/