“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.”
This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.
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Brown is arguing for a kind of honesty that most people find embarrassing, since it requires admitting the parts of a life that do not make a good story. Calling it the bravest thing is a deliberate provocation, because the alternative is a life narrated entirely in one's own favour.