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@[]##HAPPINESS IN A HORRIBLE WORLD ##THE DISINTEGRATION OF SARTRE
Playing the role of the fully liberated woman, de Beauvoir had many affairs; but she always returned to Sartre in the end#She once reproached Sartre for his macho attitudes, being what she called a 'phallocrat', a charge he denied with only mock indignation#Sartre said that de Beauvoir had "the intelligence of a man and the sensitivity of a woman"#"The meaning of life," said de Beauvoir, "is what each one of us can discover and create for ourselves."#Sartre suggested that he and de Beauvoir marry in order to get appointed as teachers in the same town after their graduation; de Beauvoir firmly refused#"One is not born, but rather becomes a woman" wrote de Beauvoir in 1949. "It is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, intermediate between male and female, which is described as feminine."#De Beauvoir saw childhood as a key to personality. "I think that one can never really understand someone properly unless one has grasped the keys of his childhood."#In 1971 de Beauvoir signed the Manifeste des 343, joining 342 other well-known signatories admitting that they had had an abortion. The aim aws to secure a more liberal abortion law in France#The Second Sex sold over two million copies in France in its first week of publication#In 1974 de Beauvoir was elected president of the League for the Rights of Women, an organisation which campaigned for aid for battered wives, single parents and working women#"Professors hurled the book [The Second Sex] across the room . . People sniggered at me in restaurants. The fact that I had written about female sexuality was absolutely scandalous at the time. Men kept drawing attention to the vulgarity of the book . . furious of what [it] was suggesting - equality of the sexes."
