Simone De Beauvoir was a French philosopher and writer. Her famous book, The Second Sex, known as “The Feminist Bible”, discussed the foundation and formation of women’s oppression, establishing the base of contemporary feminism. The famous quote “One is not born, but rather becomes, woman” revealed the hidden complexity women hold shaped by their situation. And not just about feminism, but her insights on the meaning of life and freedom had been so groundbreaking, inspiring many of those after her.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is a German American philosopher born in a secular Jewish family, a classicist, and a political commentator, as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Witnessing the murderous totalitarianism in Europe in the 1940s she developed her ideas on political philosophy, and about human condition, as well as the thinking of the faculty of the mind. She is also known for her thoughts on power and evil, democracy, and authority.