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Gen X
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Generation X women, who as children lacked cell phones and helicopter parents, came up relying on our own wits. To keep ourselves safe, we took control. We worked hard and made lists and tried to do everything all at once for a very long time without much help. We took responsibility for ourselves--and later we also took responsibility for our work or partners or children or parents. We should be proud of ourselves.
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― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
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If our generation has been told for decades that we have so much freedom, so many choices, such opportunities, the question women with young children face is: how free are we to reach for the stars in midlife if we have someone else depending on us? Especially when our concept of good parenting involves so much more brain space and such higher costs than it did for our mothers and grandmothers? And when we expect ourselves to be excellent, highly engaged parents while also being excellent, highl
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― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
― Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
For Swifties of a certain age who also have an affection for the written word.
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