A Love Letter to the Beautiful Mind of Simone de Beauvoir

This week on the Love Letters, Life & Other Conversations podcast Jane shares a quote from Simone de Beauvoir as the springboard for this week's conversation, and also reads a few excerpts from the book, Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick. 

The quote:
'One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others'  ~ Simone de Beauvoir

Wendy and Jane talk about how you will find what you are looking for, and if you change your perspective, you can shift what you are calling into you.

And for those of you who love beautiful and interesting words as much as the three of us do, Jane shared that Simone considered herself solipsistic, and 'solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's mind is sure to exist.'

Here are our takeaways for this week:
 
 Wendy

• The beautiful way in which Simone uses contrast in her writing
• And... she shares in Jane's beautiful takeaway.

Jane 

• Jane's takeaway was summed up in an excerpt of Simone's writing:
  “I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”

Kristina (KB)

• How Simone questions as she writes. Inviting herself and the reader to question along with her. 

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