- Three months later, Germans arrived in Paris. #Bienenfeld barely escaped capture during Occupation; her grandfather and an aunt died in the camps. She says that #Sartre and #Beauvoir never inquired about her or tried to find her during the war.

- Just as a waiter x plays role of a x,” she wrote, #Sartre played role of a man in love.” ( refers to a passage in #Sartre’s “ #BeingandNothingness,” w he began when he was courting #Bienenfeld, about bad faith of x, who lets himself be defined by role society has given him