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What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Novelist and essayist
All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don’t do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you.
Recorded Wellesley College 137th Commencement, 29 May 2015 source ↗

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