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One of my favorite writers is Simone de Beauvoir, she was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, and 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 and his work "The Second Sex" is considered fundamental in the history of feminism. He was also a couple of the philosopher Jean Paul Sartre.

I admire her because she was one of the first professors of philosophy and, although she was considered more advanced than before, she was a woman who decided not to have children and that is admirable for the time in which she lived.

The Second Sex, first published in 1949 in French as "Le Deuxième Sexe", turns the existentialist mantra that existence precedes essence into a feminist one: "One is not born but becomes a woman". With this famous phrase, Beauvoir first articulated what has come to be known as the sex-gender distinction, that is, the distinction between biological sex and the social and historical construction of gender and its attendant stereotypes. “The fundamental source of women's oppression" Beauvoir notes, "is its historical and social construction as the quintessential" Currently in 2018 the manuscript pages of "The second sex" were published. At the time her adopted daughter, Sylvie Le Bon-de Beauvoir, a philosophy professor, described her mother's writing process: Beauvoir wrote every page of her books longhand first and only after that would hire typists.