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Letter From The Editor

The personal essays of Breaking Up With Perfect discuss everything from the incredible stress of performing perfection at work and in our personal lives, to the unexpected liberation of failing, and countless other truths about how we deal with the world's expectations of us, and our expectations of ourselves. I hope they'll help us all have more conversations about why the word expects women to be effortlessly perfect — and what happens when we're frank about how impossible perfection really is.