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“... writers have in common – Marianne Moore, Katherine Anne Porter, Rebecca West, P.L. Travers, Simone deBeauvoir, Elizabeth Bishop, Nadine Gordimer and Anne Sexton, who appear in the volume alongside the writers already mentioned – is that they are not men, which is not as tautological a proposition as it ...”

“... which he took part, or the incandescent power of its images. ‘The last pictures of Lumumba,’ Simone deBeauvoir wrote in her autobiography, ‘the photographs of his wife leading the mourners, head shaved, breast bared – what novel could compete with that?’ It’s a very good question. Significant attempts to ...”

“... They may contain ‘projects’ with posthumous implications, a provision recommended by Simone deBeauvoir, or they may be spent in idleness or even wickedness, having few virtuous connections with the rest of the life in question, or with the structures of literary narrative. Nor do readings of the past and ...”

“... of the Lisburn Road, where Ulster banners fly from the lampposts, to the City Hall with its eau-de-nil dome and pale stone statue of Queen Victoria. The clinic isn’t easy to find: the signs beside the door at No 14 are for BioKinetic Europe, which runs clinical trials, MKB Law, and Bupa; next door there’s a Tesco Express and Boojum, a ‘Mexican Burrito ...”

“... of battling with the Estate seems to have altered Rose’s work, much as the discovery of Paul de Man’s wartime journalism forced Deconstructionists to deal with history. As she writes, ‘it can be argued (it has recently been argued in relation to the critic Paul de Man) that faced with the reality of the ...”

“... were killed and 14 wounded: that started the revolution. In 1962, after a long and atrocious war, de Gaulle and the bewildered, exhausted French were forced to grant Algeria its independence. Millions of young Frenchmen were sent out to ‘defend’ French Algeria. A few thousand behaved disgracefully: torture was often used to extract information from ...”

“... The Second Sex, had also combined formal academic training with a tumultuous private life. But Simone deBeauvoir siphoned her more extreme autobiographical references into her novels. Greer, by contrast, drew spicily and in depth on her own biology and experiences. She was also beautiful and six feet tall. So she ...”

“... this may have been due to his own ‘temporary state of mind’. English Heppenstall also finds Simone deBeauvoir ‘an utter bore’ (‘No feminist can ever have so abjectly betrayed what men consider the feminine condition by tagging along behind Sartre’), and he says he once christened her – ‘wittily I ...”

“... in effect, as Nasser’s man in Paris, reportedly delivering messages from the Egyptians to de Gaulle during the Evian negotiations between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front. Nasser couldn’t have had a better emissary on the Left Bank: al-Samman, one of whose mentors was a former Resistance fighter who had survived Mauthausen, was ...”

“... are harbingers of a slide to nothingness, not marks of a transcendence to come. To grow old, as Simone deBeauvoir said, ‘is to define oneself’ and being defined, even self-defined, is privative as well as positive. The ascent to seniority prunes possibility: the old are what they are and, to a lesser ...”

“... the editor of Le Monde, ‘that Camus would say some fucking fool thing.’ Sartre and Beauvoir’s response was very similar – they had long ceased to be on speaking terms with Camus because of his ‘reactionary’ tendencies. The irony, as Olivier Todd points out, was that Camus had joined the Communist Party in 1935 because he felt it was a ...”

“... he crisply reminds her where she learned the word; he watches, bemused, as she models herself on Simone deBeauvoir, or on Angela Davis, then unexpectedly – Karim thinks perversely – lets Anwar blackmail her into an arranged marriage to a man chosen by the family back in Bombay. For Karim’s saving grace is his ...”

“... in ‘Women and Power in Cuba’, 1985), an exegesis of quite stunning clarity can be achieved. Simone deBeauvoir said, shortly before she died, that we were all of us bound to like women best, to find them sexier than men, because their complexions are so much better, they wear more interesting clothes, and they ...”

“... anthology reminds anyone who needs reminding how much they have contributed to its literature. Simone deBeauvoir, Elizabeth Bowen, Marguerite Duras, Martha Gellhorn, Natalia Ginzburg, Shirley Hazzard, Doris Lessing and many other women writers are here (but not Anne Frank or Hannah Arendt), and among the more ...”

“... no doubt on either side that Sartre and she were people who understood each other. Her name was Simone deBeauvoir. It was one of those rare meetings of minds which make the matings of the herd seem lamentably bestial. They saw eye to eye, it appeared, on everything, including marriage, which they ...”