1986年4月14日,法国女作家西蒙娜·德·博瓦尔因患肺水肿医治无效,在巴黎科尚医院逝世,享年78岁。博瓦尔女士一生致力于妇女争取独立自主的运动,“人不要生为女人,要成为女人”就是她1949年写在《第二的性》开头的一句名言。她同存在主义哲学家让·保罗·萨特结为伉俪,历时半个世纪共同生活在一起。这些给全世界争取独立自主的妇女们以极大的影响。萨特于1980年4月15日去世后,博瓦尔以自己的日记为基础撰写的《离别的仪式》,于1981年问世。在书中,她以冷静、细腻而又饱含爱情的笔触描述了丈夫最后十年的活动。发表这部作品后,她几乎不再动笔,而一心投身于提高妇女地位的运动。 April 14, 1986, the French woman writer Simone de Boer Er ineffective treatment of pulmonary edema, died in Paris Keshang Hospital, at the age of 78 years. Her life was dedicated to the women’s struggle for independence. “Do not be born as a woman, become a woman” was one of the famous quotes she wrote at “The Second Sex” in 1949. She married Jean Paul Saut, a existentialist philosopher, and lived together for half a century. These have a tremendous impact on women’s independence throughout the world for their independence. After the death of Sartre on April 15, 1980, Beauvoir published his “Diary Ceremony” based on his diary in 1981. In her book, she describes her husband’s last ten years of activity with a cool, delicate and full of love strokes. With the publication of this work, she devoted almost no effort to the campaign for the advancement of women.