One of the hallmarks of happiness is having close, meaningful connections with others. But keeping up a facade of having it all together keeps us isolated, because it keeps us from forging real, honest, deep relationships where we can fully be ourselves and feel accepted exactly as we are.

About Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is an American lawyer, activist, and entrepreneur known for founding Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization focused on closing the gender disparity in computing, and Moms First, a nonprofit organization that advocates for policy changes to support mothers.

More quotations from Reshma Saujani

The work here isn't to figure out why they didn't like you, or who's right and who's wrong. It's to practice being okay with the idea that there are some people who will get you and some people who won't…and that's fine.

—Reshma Saujani in Not Perfect