Who is Simone de Beauvoir from Reviving Ophelia and what is their importance?

Dr. Pipher refers to author Simone de Beauvoir's observations about adolescent girls. Simone de Beauvoir believes that girls realize in adolescence that men have all of the power in society, and that they must be submissive in order to be accepted. They do not suffer from the penis envy of which Freud speaks. According to Simone de Beauvoir, these girls suffer from power envy. They all become "female impersonators", whose sole concern is pleasing others. De Beauvoir defines female strength as remaining the subject of one's life and resisting the cultural pressure to become the object of male experience.