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I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.
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If you point out that they’re walking in shit they scream it’s you that have dirty feet.
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I feel something troubling inside of me which scares me, an exhausting violence. But I accept the great adventure of being me.
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I tried to love you less. I couldn’t.
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