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De Beauvoir attends college
In 1926, Simone De Beauvoir attended École Normale Supérieu, becoming the ninth woman to obtain the agrégation as well as being the youngest to do so ever in philosophy. I think that attending a prestigious college and achieving as much as she did by the age of 21 encouraged her drive and passion for philosophy and advocacy for women.
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Publication of "She Came to Stay"
After teaching intermittently from 1931-1943, De Beauvoir began to concentrate on her writing. In 1943, she publihsed her first novel, "She Came to Stay" which focused on a female's desire for social and economical interdependence while taking into account her desire for love and sexual fulfillment. Achieving her lifelong dream of becoming a philosopher and inspiring women. The publication of this book was De Beauvoir's giant leap into the world of writing feminist literature and philosophy. -
Publication of "The Second Sex'
In 1949, six years after De Beauvoir's first novel was published, she published "The Second Sex". This book was not well received, the most notable opposer being the Vatican. However controversial, the book was a huge success with women selling twenty thousand copies in two weeks. Seeing how women flocked to buy this book despite the outrage showed De Beauvoir that the work that she was doing was incredibly important to many women, encouraging her to continue to pursue this her work. -
Publication of "Old Age"
In De Beauvoir's later years, she wrote many more books. "Old Age" speaks about aging discrimination and argues that aging is not just a biological decline. De Beauvoir thought that aging should be celebrated instead of feared. This work was important as Beauvoir, in her younger years, thought that women over 30 should not have sex lives and many other misconceptions that come with aging. Aging as well as writing "Old Age" led Beauvoir to change her views on aging biological and socially.