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“... 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 ...”

“... the issue of ‘gender’ has been central to feminist thought at least as far back as the work of Simone deBeauvoir in the late 1940s. Biology, she argued, is part of a person’s situation, but does not determine the kind of work one will do, the person one will love, or the ‘destiny’ of one’s life. Trans ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... campaign against oppression and neglect. Jacques Tati as Monsieur Hulot in ‘Les Vacances de M. Hulot’ (1953). In the decades after the Second World War, another supremely accomplished mime artist with a lively sense of the possibilities of film emerged as a plausible successor to the Tramp. Jacques Tati, born in 1907 and raised in one of Paris’s ...”

“... at the box office, but it also won the endorsement of both the young Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone deBeauvoir, with Sartre (whose life is strikingly similar to that of Brecht) learning the catchy tunes by heart.’ As an approach, this is about as discriminating as the ducking-stool, and will no doubt draw ...”

“... to Auchan, the hypermarché in Cergy, written between 1985 and 1992; and Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit in 1997 (translated by Tanya Leslie as I Remain in Darkness, published in the UK in 2019), another diary, covering the period from 1983 to 1986, almost exclusively concerned with her visits to her mother in the nursing home, and ending with her ...”

“... quite suitable to her carefully tended personal image, so akin to those of Lola Montez and Liane de Pougy, or those of Garbo and Callas. Madsen’s book takes note of the variability of Chanel’s own accounts of events, and gives several if no single one can be authenticated. He clearly knows French well, but for excerpted French conversation and commentary ...”

“... to much contemporary writing on women by women, Nochlin rejected the idea that there existed de facto ‘feminine’ artistic styles.Given the essay’s importance to feminist art history, it seems notable that Nochlin’s opening salvo was aimed not at the patriarchy but at her feminist peers. She cautioned against an emphasis on the ...”

“... It is, however, her reason for choosing Anaïs Nin as her third biographical subject, after Simone deBeauvoir and Samuel Beckett. Bair is not making a case for re-evaluating Nin’s fiction. Her claim is that although Nin was ‘not an original thinker’ and a ‘minor writer whose novels are seldom read these ...”

“... I was trying to understand the changes my first wife was going through. I read Betty Friedan, Simone deBeauvoir, Mary Daly. Of course, the failure of that marriage had less to do with gender issues than with sexual etiquette. It was not the changing role of women but her sleeping with her Uncle Fred’s arty ...”

“... closed eyelids and the immanent presence of the sacred’.Jay begins his history in the Chavín de Huántar, a temple in the High Andes of Peru rediscovered by archaeologists in the 1930s. A carved figure in an inner sanctum, ‘snake-haired, sprouting fangs and claws’ and wielding a San Pedro cactus like an upraised baguette, has been dated to 1200 bce ...”

“... ways for different people. A couple of years earlier, in a letter to Jacques-Laurent Bost, Simone deBeauvoir had pronounced it ‘less and less likely’ that Hitler could want a war. Now she took the news that the summer examinations of 1940 had been cancelled to be ‘definitive and without hope’. St ...”

“... had been praised by Delmore Schwartz, and he was an elegant, speedy translator, most recently of Simone deBeauvoir. Further information was in short supply, and he was unhelpful when publicists tried to elicit more of it, but he seemed to have some sort of Anglo-Irish background. Though he spoke with an upper-class ...”

“... to the dismal aspect of urban Scotland. ‘Our hearts sank at the grimness of the towns,’ said Simone deBeauvoir when she and Sartre toured Scotland after the Second World War. Working-class people were decanted from centres which were ‘at least compact’ to ‘segregated and ill-served housing estates’. The ...”