Beauty is not rent owed for existing in public.
A body is not a service offered to strangers.
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Women Don't Owe You Pretty
7 memorable lines from Women Don't Owe You Pretty by Florence Given, each with the idea behind it.
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Niceness becomes harmful when it requires self-erasure.
Approval is expensive when truth is the price.
Being chosen is not the same as being free.
Desirability should not outrank self-definition.
Boundaries are a language of self-respect.
No is a full sentence when safety requires it.
Anger can clarify where a line has been crossed.
The emotion may carry information worth hearing.
Pleasure and ambition do not need permission from respectability.
A life can be self-authored without apology.
The book is most useful as a permission refusal.
Stop auditioning for comfort that costs you yourself.
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