Flux Quotes

“Maybe it was just one of those days when you hear an old question a new way, that quite suddenly shifts your perspective.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World

“Now is the time your career will take off,” it booms, “but don’t forget to find a husband. Hurry, have a child, the clock is ticking—but what do you mean, you’re going to become a single mom or need more time at home? Don’t lose yourself in your children or you’ll never find your way back—but if you work too much, you’ll ruin them. If you have a daughter, what will she say about your trade-offs? Remember how you felt about your mom? What’s wrong with you anyway? Weren’t you supposed to be able to do anything?”
― Peggy Orenstein, Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World

“Establishing “balance” in a relationship—learning to be involved without submerging oneself, to pursue goals unrelated to love without sacrificing it—is the first challenge young women face on their way to the bigger negotiations of marriage and motherhood.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World