Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris, France 1908. Simone grew up in a respected bourgeois family, eldest of two daughters. At a young age she adopted atheism and devoted her life to writing and studying. She studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne, graduating in 1929 with a degree in philosophy. As a final thesis, she wrote on Leibniz. Philosophy was, for her a discussion and study of the essentials of existence-- though she was also fascinated by beauty and aesthetics.

While at Sorbonne Simone met French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom she shared an intellectual interests. From then on they became life lon

Thus begins what was said to be the ‘moral’ phase of her life. In 1943 she published her first novel, L’invitée, translated as She Came to Stay, in 1949. Hence the beginning of her most important philosophical works Pyrrhus et Cineas which was published in 1944, and The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1948. In 1947 Simone became a committed writer and devoted herself to analyzing the social, cultural, philosophical and political problems of her time.

Le deuxieme sexe, 1949 (translated as The Second Sex, 1953) was written. This was the definitive declaration of woman\'s independence.

Simone was also a pro-abortionist, a socialist with Marxist sympathies, and an anti-colonialist, publicly criticizing France\'s position in Algiers. Simone\'s existential study of the situation of women in the world, drew significantly from personal experience and was extremely influential in the formation of feminist theory, as a result the book

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