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Sharon Nir
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The Opposite of Comfortable
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The Opposite of Comfortable: The Unlikely Choices of an Immigrant Career Woman
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Beautiful People,
Diversity. If I had a nickel for every time I heard this word during the last year, I would have traveled far away to a place with no news and live blissfully.
In our exceptionally verbal, exceedingly broadcasted collective life, it’s quite an achievement to overuse a word in the English vocabulary, and yet we’ve succeeded.
When listening to the many mentions of diversity, aliens Read more of this blog post »
Diversity. If I had a nickel for every time I heard this word during the last year, I would have traveled far away to a place with no news and live blissfully.
In our exceptionally verbal, exceedingly broadcasted collective life, it’s quite an achievement to overuse a word in the English vocabulary, and yet we’ve succeeded.
When listening to the many mentions of diversity, aliens Read more of this blog post »
“Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.”
― The Opposite of Comfortable
― The Opposite of Comfortable
“...when 'empowering women' becomes 'overpowering women' not only is it the polar opposite of feminism; it is the opposite of ‘right.’ Empowering women begins by respecting their individual choices.”
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“I was married, a mom, and a career woman—the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed.”
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“I was married, a mom, and a career woman—the holy trinity of women in the twenty-first century. The three expressions were truly distinct, but the unity of them created the essence. I must confess I felt in control, much more than I felt blessed.”
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“...when 'empowering women' becomes 'overpowering women' not only is it the polar opposite of feminism; it is the opposite of ‘right.’ Empowering women begins by respecting their individual choices.”
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“Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end.”
― The Opposite of Comfortable
― The Opposite of Comfortable
“What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing— campaign succeeds is a society whose members have identical roles but are perpetually at war with themselves; a society of males made neurotic by suppressed masculinity, of females made miserable by having masculine roles thrust upon them that contradict their feminine impulses.”
― The Female Woman
― The Female Woman
