She had her own calling card at the age of three. At twentyone, she signed a "two-year lease" with her lover, aspiring philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. When she was forty, she wrote "The Second Sex," which caused a scandal and became one of feminism's key texts: Simone de Beauvoir is regarded as an icon of 20th century feminism. Ursula März explores the author's iconic status and the effect it had on her as a person.