Enough Quote by Dorothy Hamill

“I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.”

Dorothy Hamill

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Daughter Relationship Enough Good Good enough Mother Parenting Perfection Relationship Striving for perfection Typical

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