Maria Popova Quotes

Most Of Us Live Our Lives Desperately Trying To Conceal The Anguishing Gap Between Our Polished, Aspirational, Representational Selves And Our Real, Human, Deeply Flawed Selves. Dunham Lives Hers In That Gap, Welcomes The Rest Of The World Into It With Boundless Openheartedness, And Writes About It With The Kind Of Profound Self-awareness And Self-compassion That Invite Us To Inhabit Our Own Gaps And Maybe Even Embrace Them A Little Bit More, Anguish Over Them A Little Bit Less.

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