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“Don’t fight so hard against things you can’t change, child. You’ll batter yourself to death. Learn to change what you can and accept what you can’t. Be the palm that bends in the wind to withstand the gale.”
She wasn’t made to sit for hours on end, confined and coiffed, surrounded by women whose conversation revolved around fashion, running households, and raising children.
She rebelled against rules and conformity and other people’s expectations of her. She always had. If she gave that up—gave up her individuality, her fierce independence—what would be left
