Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Mikkola, Mari (3 January 2018). "Feminist Perspectives on Sex and Gender". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University – via Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. When Simone reaches adolescence, she begins to feel as if she is a disappointment. Once a conventionally attractive child, she no longer finds herself pretty. Her skin is scarred and damaged by acne, and she becomes clumsy. She feels shame and observes (whether truthfully or not) that her father finds her ugly and her younger sister Hélène no longer looks up to her. She also writes that her mother becomes afraid of an “unidentifiable change” in her oldest daughter.

As well as her enthusiasm as a precocious little girl, her tantrums when she tore off at a captivating moment, her ungrateful adolescence, her questions about faith, and her young emotions in the first years of her life. Then her fierce desire frees her from the bourgeoisie in which she is entangled like many friends. These meetings will forge her and direct her unceasingly towards discoveries and reflections always in motion. Once Simone learns to read, she does not stop. Her parents attempt to forbid her from reading certain books they deem improper, but this only incites their daughter further. She reads the forbidden works in secrecy, absorbing every word even if she does not fully understand it. She also begins to write. Jones, Daniel (2011). Roach, Peter; Setter, Jane; Esling, John (eds.). Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary (18thed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-15255-6.

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Lisa Appignanesi's top 10 books by and about Simone de Beauvoir". The Guardian. UK. 8 January 2008. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019 . Retrieved 6 January 2019. Table of Contents: Sisterhood is global". Catalog.vsc.edu. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 15 October 2015.

Poirier, Agnès (25 May 2019). "Les Temps Modernes: Paris mourns passing of the intellectual left's bible". The Observer . Retrieved 8 April 2022. Philosophy had neither opened up the heavens to me nor anchored me to earth...I had no fixed ideas of my own, but least I knew that I rejected Aristotle, St Thomas Aquinas, Maritain, and also all empirical and materialist doctrines (p.234).Francis, Claude. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story. Lisa Nesselson (translator). New York: St. Martin's, 1987. ISBN 0312001894. Soon, however, Simone develops feelings for Jacques. She loves him, but at the same time is aware that the two are incompatible. She explains that Jacques enjoys life’s luxuries and is easily contented. Simone, on the other hand, is goal-driven, never happy unless she has a challenge to overcome. More importantly, while Jacques is non-traditional, he is happy to conform to society’s values and expectations. Simone refuses to do so.

Hélène Rouch, 2001–2002, Trois conceptions du sexe: Simone de Beauvoir entre Adrienne Sahuqué et Suzanne Lilar, Simone de Beauvoir Studies, n° 18, pp.49–60.a b c d e f Bergoffen, Debra (16 August 2010). Zalta, Edward (ed.). "Simone de Beauvoir". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010ed.). Stanford University. ISSN 1095-5054 . Retrieved 11 June 2021. Algren was her guide through the Chicago underworld, among drug addicts and petty thieves. De Beauvoir, Simone (1999). America Day by Day. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209794 . Retrieved 29 July 2023. She was only five when her questioning mind led her to wonder why “the all-powerful Christ child should prefer to come down the chimney like a common sweep at Christmas.” Her parents felt impelled to confess the deception. Le Bon-de Beauvoir, Sylvie (1997). "Preface: A Transatlantic Love Affair". The New York Times . Retrieved 28 December 2017.