4 Writers On What Makes Them Feel Most Like Themselves

Anne Lamott

Author of Bird by Bird, Traveling Mercies, and Imperfect Birds (Riverhead), out in April.

I look most like myself...in worn jeans and a tight-ish white T-shirt.

I act most like myself...at church, overeating after worship.

I feel most like myself... lying in bed on Sunday mornings with the dogs and the cat, reading The New York Times.

I feel least like myself...when I have to socialize with people I do not know.

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