self-realization

Their work has been a venue for self-expression and self-realization for many young people, in a context where few economic opportunities are available.

And while it may be dangerous to attribute specific emotions to an animal, it is fair to say that, at least on a physical level, a kind of self-realization was occurring.

This is a self-realization story hung on a romantic comedy — to begin with, it takes place in an airport, the most rom-commy of all rom-com settings.

The novelist Anzia Yezierska, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called “New Face in the Mirror” “an extraordinary record of the inner life of a rebellious adolescent in search of self-realization.”

The story symbolized women’s self-realization and freedom to confront “this huge masculine icon — the bridge,” she explained.