Nov 23, 2017
When you're a child, you very easily resign yourself to being regarded as of little account, but at seventeen things change. You begin to want to have a definite existence, and since you still feel the same inside yourself, you foolishly have recourse to external guarantees.... You seek the approbation of others, you write down your thoughts, you compare yourself with accepted models.
-Simone de Beauvoir, She Came to Stay