Life magazine included Simone de Beauvoir in the 100 most influential people of the millennium.

Sandra Bloodworth will pay tribute to her as a significant existentialist philosopher who wrote The Second Sex, a seminal book about women’s oppression, and who took a courageous stand for Algerian independence from French colonial rule, sold censured left-wing papers in the streets, and took a controversial stand for abortion rights.

A life to (critically) celebrate.