“I’ve always had a need to talk about myself... The first question I always had was: what does it mean to be a woman? I thought I would answer it immediately. But it was worth a close look at this problem, and I realized first of all that this world is made for men... Simone de Beauvoir wrote about herself, a classic of feminist literature, whose female and creative life flowed next to the great Jean-Paul Sartre, but not in the shadow of Sartre. "Beautiful Pictures" (1966) - this is the confession of the writer . The Story of a Young Woman . Work in an advertising agency taught her to imagine life as a series of pictures from glossy magazines: a well-maintained house, well-bred children, her husband - a fashionable architect, her lover - everything is like in advertising. But what lies behind these happy clichés? Is there a place for live feelings?