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In my experience, Gen X women spend lots of time minimizing the importance of their uncomfortable or confusing feelings. They often tell me that they are embarrassed to even bring them up. Some of the unhappiest women I spoke with, no
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This book is speaking my language
“Nikki, I'm not valuable because I'm employed. And I'm not valuable because others value me. I'm valuable because I value myself.”
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“Anyone desperate enough to escape can lose themselves in the delicious twists of novels, allow themselves to be transported into the bodies of wild women or small hungry boys, taken to strange cities or enchanted woods, dropped into wartime or the end of times.”
― What I Would Do to You
― What I Would Do to You
“Every person is just a story that everyone around them writes on them. When we meet new people, the story changes.”
― We Are the Stars
― We Are the Stars
“Humans don’t fall in love with the person; we fall in love with the lesson they’re here to teach us. When that lesson is done, it’s done.”
― We Are the Stars
― We Are the Stars
“Gen X women had sky-high expectations for themselves. The contrast between our “you can be anything” indoctrination and the stark realities encountered in midlife—when you might, despite your best efforts, not be able to find a partner or get pregnant or save for retirement or own your own home or find a job with benefits—has made us feel like failures at the exact moment when we most require courage. It takes our bodies longer to recover from a night of drinking and it takes our spirits longer to bounce back from rejection. We may wind up asking questions like the one my friend posed to me the other night: “Do you think my life is ever going to be good again?”
― Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis
― Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis
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