Simone de Beauvoir at her little desk, Jean-Paul Sartre at his. The author of The Second Sex, among other books, she’s inspirational to me in so many ways. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman,” she famously wrote, and, as far as I’m concerned, that’s the most important feminist idea ever voiced. But she also wrote, in one of her memoirs, that when looking for an apartment, all you need is a fireplace to read by during the winter, and a balcony to read on during the summer. I’ve lived by that rule ever since.
— Guest Editor from BUST, Editor-in-Chief Debbie Stoller
(Source: beauvoiriana, via existentialfunk-deactivated2013)
“Photo of Virginia McKenna portraying Joy Adamson in the 1966 film Born Free .
After portraying a naturalist and wild animal advocate as an actress, Virginia McKenna went on to become one in her real life, founding the Born Free Foundation which helps keep wildlife in the wild.”
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