Simone De Beauvoir: “Whenever a woman behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”
In-depth interview: “Well, first of all, I did do something about it: I wrote an entire 900 page book” Wed, April 5, 1972 By: Maria Jose Vargas Uribe Photo Credit: Pinterest It has been 23 years since Simone De Beauvoir published her famous book The Second Sex , and last week in an interview with Le Nouvel Observateur she declared herself a feminist. I had the amazing opportunity to talk with her about her book, feminism, marriage, women’s sexual liberation, and the meaning of being a woman in the 20th century. I think the first and most important question is why now? In The Second Sex, you didn’t call yourself a feminist, and now 23 years after, you declared yourself a militant feminist, what changed? Well, to be honest back in the ‘40s the feminist movement was not as big as it is today. The liberation movement was reformist and legalist, which is the main reason I never wanted to join them. However, in present days the movement has become revolutionary and actual...