She was a French writer, philosopher, intellectual, activist and feminist.
She was born in Paris in 1908.
She studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure.
Her husband was Jean-Paul Sartre who was a French philosopher and activist. Together they joined the French Communist Party.
Her best known work is ‘Second Sex’ which is a feminist analysis of female existence.
She was considered the ‘Mother of Feminism’.
She died of pneumonia in 1986.
After her death she was the recipient of great praise. She is one of the greatest French thinkers.
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