Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
de Beauvoir, Simone. The Coming of Age. Translated by Patrick O'Brian, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1972.
18 years later, his son—George W. Bush—made the “nutty idea” one of the main planks in his Presidential legislative program. After the younger Bush traveled the country selling his reform ideas, the public came down on the side of his father and rejected the President’s “nutty idea.”
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.