The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Quote by Anna Quindlen

Topics: Becoming Yourself Quotes, Perfection Quotes

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders....

It's important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations or leaders....

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are...

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are...

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented...

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented...

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the...

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the...

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me...

I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and...

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks...

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks...

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to...

Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense...

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense...

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of...

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of...

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse...

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse...

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse...

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse...

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were...

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were...

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to...

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to...

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman...

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman...

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the...

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the...

Shout out to the money that just magically appeared in my bank account!

Shout out to the money that just magically appeared in my bank account!

Yea I've always been short but my bank account will always be growing.

Yea I've always been short but my bank account will always be growing.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to...

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to...

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to...

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to...

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see

Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see