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The speaker is saying that her upbringing gave her strict moral and political ideas, but those ideas conflicted with each other. As a result, she felt mentally stuck and unable to make sense of her own beliefs.
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About Simone de Beauvoir
French writer, social theorist, and feminist activist
Simone de Beauvoir was a French writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. She is closely associated with existentialism and with the development of feminist thought. Although she did not describe herself as a philosopher, her work had a major influence on feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Her writings are often read in the context of those ideas, rather than as part of a formal philosophical career.
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Books by Simone de Beauvoir
Le Deuxième Sexe
1968
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2005
Yikilmis Kabin
2013
Las inseparables
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L'invitée
1999