A daughter’s rebellion centers on resisting subjugation, not on the mother’s strictness.

Evidence

I wouldn’t have known how to answer the truth, however innocent it was, because I never felt innocent in front of Mama. She was the essential adult, and I resented her for it as long as I was not yet cured. There was deep inside me a kind of tumultuous and fierce sore that I was sure of always finding raw … I didn’t think she was too strict; nor that she hadn’t the right. I thought: no, no, no with all my strength. I didn’t even blame her for her authority or for her orders or arbitrary defenses but for wanting to subjugate me. … This anger was my guilt in front of her and also my shame in front of me (because in reality she frightened me, and all I had on my side in the form of retaliation were a few violent words or acts of insolence) but also my glory, nevertheless: as long as the sore was there, and living the silent madness that made me only repeat, “Subjugate, docile, punishment, humiliation,” I wouldn’t be subjugated. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 711

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Colette Audry’s testimony captures the paradox of the maternal relation — resentment, guilt, shame, and glory bound together as the child’s resistance — dense and self-contradictory in a way that rewards sustained reflection.
• FICTION: The child’s internal refrain — ‘Subjugate, docile, punishment, humiliation’ — is a striking narrative device for rendering interior revolt that a fiction writer could borrow.
• XREF: connects to: Assailing the mother-figure is how rebels reject the given order itself

Broader Connections

• Assailing the mother-figure is how rebels reject the given order itself #expands (0.85)