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Anna Quindlen

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Anna Quindlen

Morning

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The author describes a long experience of feeling criticized and judged for various personal qualities throughout her life. One day, she suddenly realized that she did not need to meet anyone else's standards to feel complete or valuable.

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