7 Fun Facts About Simone de Beauvoir

1. Her dad claimed that she “thought like a man.”  (High praise from…a man.)
2. When she took the agregation in philosophy at age 21 (a test to rank students in a subject), she was the youngest person ever to pass and only the 9th woman.  And the only person to beat her was Jean-Paul Sartre.
3. Although at first very devout, when she was 14 she turned to atheism.
4. She had an “open relationship” with Jean-Paul Sartre.
5. If you’ve ever heard the quote, “One is not born, but rather becomes, woman,” that’s her.
6. Her book The Second Sex got put on the Index of Prohibited Books!  (Bet she was excited about that.)
7. Upon her death, the newspaper headlines read, “Women, you owe her everything.”

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