"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

Power, Expectations, Lies, Self

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"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."

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"The child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult."

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"He meant doing things not because we were expected to do them or had always done them or should do them but because we wanted to do them."

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