Her Beautiful Mind

On reading Becoming Beauvoir

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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.
— Simone de Beauvoir

I am reading her like an old friend.
I am turning the pages and walking with her.
In her words I see the sky which she painted.
In her words I see the tears which she held.

I am reading her thinking the book will lead me to her.
She is not there but her words still speak to me,
through her words I see her beautiful mind.

Note — I am loving this book Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick.sim

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