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Peggy Orenstein
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Re: my earlier post on manic pixie dream girls (which I have corrected to give coinage credit to Nathan Rabin at A.V. Club). Here’s the ever-brilliant Anita Sarkeesian atFeminist Frequency on the subject.
And in case you missed it, here is…well, just watch and enjoy!
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
   3.61 avg rating — 3,966 ratings
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2011
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Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother
3.56 avg rating — 678 ratings
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2007
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Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
3.96 avg rating — 465 ratings
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published
1994
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2 editions
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Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World
by Peggy Orenstein, Alice van Straalen 3.78 avg rating — 367 ratings
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2000
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Women On Work, Love, Children And Life
4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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2000
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“But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
― Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
“Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother
― Peggy Orenstein, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother
“The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother
― Peggy Orenstein, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother
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