Simone De BeauvoirI didn't know the first thing about the people around me, but that didn't matter: I was in a new world; and I had the feelings that at last I had put my finger on the secret of freedom.
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This quote by J.K. Rowling is one of the most powerful and poignant that I have ever read. It captures everything that we should be feeling when we finally find our own voice and speak up for ourselves and not for others. When we finally find our own strength and we speak of it to others, we are talking of hope and possibility of change for all of us.
Source: Memoirs Of A Dutiful Daughter
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