Delia Ephron said it all in Sunday’s New York Times: To me, having it all — if one wants to define it at all — is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up. Nothing more to say. At all.
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The last, best word on Having It All
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There is No Having It All, There is No Perfect (and, Spoiler Alert: There is No Santa Claus Either)
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, feminism, gender roles, identity, psychology of choice, why women?, worklife balance, workplace, tagged Ann Marie Slaughter, choices, Debora Spar, feminism's unfinished work, having it all, jugging, multitasking, perfection, pressure, public policy, The Daily Beast, the workplace, trade-offs, Undecided: How to ditch the endless quest for perfect and find a career -- and life -- that works for you, unfinished work, us vs. them on September 24, 2012| 1 Comment »
So, the subject of our book is certainly in the air as of late. First, Ann Marie Slaughter, and now, a piece on The Daily Beast by Debora Spar, whose take on the issues of women chasing perfection, juggling roles and choices in a not-adequately-changed world was, frankly, so similar to the things we’ve written […]
Feminista: Undecided Talks Feminism, Choices, and Having It All with Author Erica Kennedy
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, feminism, grass-is-greener, identity, purpose, too many choices, why women?, worklife balance, tagged Erica Kennedy, Feminista, Gloria steinem, grass-is-greener, have it all, the road not traveled, too many choices on December 21, 2009| 3 Comments »
Readers, we’ve missed you, but we promise we’re back — and we’ve returned bearing gifts, in the form of a Q&A with the sharp, funny, honest, and slightly potty-mouthed author Erica Kennedy, whose first novel, Bling, is a New York Times Bestseller. But we bring her to you because Sydney, the main character in her […]
Having trouble with self-control? It’s all in your head!
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", decision-making, life choices, psychology of choice, tagged Baba Shiv, George Miller, Kathleen Vohs, psychology of choice, self-control, William Hedgcock on June 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »
When your best intentions go south, new research suggests that it wasn’t the devil that made you do it. It was your brain. Will power, the study found, is a finite resource, one that can be easily depleted. Which is why, when faced with a “do-I-or-don’t-I” kind of decision, you might find it easier to […]
The Glorious Gloria Explains It All
Posted in feminism, gender roles, life choices, worklife balance, workplace, tagged feminism, Gloria steinem, having it all, Ms Magazine, Naitonal Press Club on October 12, 2012| 1 Comment »
It happened again the other day: I was being interviewed by my introductory journalism class when I got The Question: Are you a feminist? Of course, I shot back. Beat. Are you? The young woman was the tiniest bit flummoxed at being put on the spot. Well, she said. I guess it depends on how […]
Have It All? Why We’re Asking the Wrong Question.
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", feminism, life choices, worklife balance, workplace, tagged Anne-Marie Slaughter, Atlantic, expectations, female role models, having it all, Hillary Clinton, Lisa Belkin, Michelle Obama, Myra Strober, opportunity cost, Oprah, parenthood, Sheryl Sandbert, worklife balance, workplace structures on June 21, 2012| 3 Comments »
I woke up this morning to a message from a former student who’d sent me a link to Anne-Marie Slaughter’s cover story in the new Atlantic. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s a brilliant piece that lays out the reasons why women still can’t have it all — and what we as a society […]
Have it all? Yeah, right!
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", culture, feminism, gender roles, worklife balance, workplace, tagged benny evangelista, Carol Greider, Deborah Gruenfeld, Enjolie, Facebook, feminism, having it all, Satnford graduate School of Business, Sheryl Sandberg on January 24, 2012| 2 Comments »
Once again, the “have it all” myth has reared it’s schizoid head. This time, the poster-woman is Facebook’s second most famous face, COO Sheryl Sandberg, who graced the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday. Don’t get me wrong. I love Sandberg. We all do. A graduate of the Harvard Business School (and […]
No, Really! Whatever Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", tagged Current Directions in Psychological Science, failure, Mark D. Seery, regret, resilience, risk-taking, trauma on December 20, 2011| 2 Comments »
That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Crisis is just opportunity in disguise. The universe/god/buddha doesn’t give us more than we can handle. It’s always darkest just before the dawn. Scar tissue is stronger. The cracks are where the light gets in. Blah blah blah. Here’s an interesting question: Which is worse, coming up […]
The Most Important Secret to Making Big Changes? Think Small.
Posted in "What should I do with my life?", tagged changes, goals, motivation, New Years resolutions on December 13, 2011| 1 Comment »
With New Years within spitting distance, I got to thinking about resolutions, and why it is that so many of us have found so little success with them. And here’s what I’ve come up with: we are thinking too big. I’m going to get in shape/become fluent in Mandarin/launch my business/get organized/go vegan: these are […]
Why We Are All Fashion Victims
Posted in culture, grass-is-greener, identity, why women?, tagged Balenciaga, having it all, media, Newsweek, Paris Fashion Week, Rochas on October 6, 2011| 2 Comments »
In the ever-escalating fetishization of the female form, I was left scratching my head once again when I opened the latest issue of Newsweek to find a quick take on Paris Fashion Week. The story focused on the untimely collapse of a few high-rent benches at the Balenciaga show. News, right? But what sent me […]