“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.'”
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People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
