西蒙·德·波伏娃的著作《第二性》奠定了战后西方女权主义的基础，是一种既非妻子又非母亲亦非信徒的存在主义者形象。
Simone de Beauvoir, whose seminal book The Second Sex laid the groundwork for post-war Western feminism, was an Existentialist who was neither a wife nor a mother nor a woman of faith.