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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
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    Bonnie Burstow
    “Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
    ― Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence
    tags: feminism, mothers, patriarchy, philosophy, psychology, radical-feminism
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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
    tags: emotion, language, patriarchy
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    Adrienne Rich
    “There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.”
    ― Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
    tags: bodies, control, patriarchy, politics, reproduction, revolution, women
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    “Peace in patriarchy is war against women.”
    ― Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
    tags: feminism, patriarchy, peace, rape, violence, war, women
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    Jim Morrison
    “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: conditioning, evolution, evolving, freedom, individuality, jim-morrison, murder, parents, potential, progress, self, self-awareness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
    tags: truth, values
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: morality, usefulness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
    tags: simplicity
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, protest, slave, slavery, slaves
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: friendship
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
    tags: force, human-nature, individuality, liberty, strength, uniqueness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “It is never too late to give up your prejudices”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: diversity, open-mindedness
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: inspirational
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