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Gemma Hartley is a journalist and writer whose work has appeared in Glamour, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Bazaar, Huffington Post, and the Washington Post, among other outlets. She lives in Reno, Nevada with her husband and three children.

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	Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward 3.72 avg rating — 3,789 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No One Loves an Angry Woman: An Exvangelical Coming-of-Rage Story it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Gemma Hartley rated a book it was amazing My Mother's Daughter: Finding Myself in My Family's Fractured Past by Tracy Clark-Flory (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wholly engrossing and beautifully rendered, this memoir is not only a poignant journey for the author but for the reader as well. You will find yourself changed by reading Clark-Flory's account of finding herself. ...more
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This is one of those books I will be thinking about and recommending to my friends for years to come. Savala Nolan writes some of the most beautiful and incisive prose I have ever encountered in an essay collection. She moves between the soft messine ...more
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I loved the intersection of limerence and purity culture in the book, and found it deeply vulnerable and relatable. A great primer on limerence and how fantasy can obstruct true intimacy.
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I wrote this book. It was hard to do. I cried a lot. Be nice to me, please.
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“I had been conditioned my whole life to think one step ahead, to anticipate the needs of those around me and care about them deeply. Emotional labor was a skill set I had been trained in since childhood. My husband, on the other hand, hadn’t received that same education. He is a caring person, but he is not a skilled carer.”
― Gemma Hartley, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

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“He restated that all I ever needed to do was ask him for help, but therein lies the problem. I don’t want to micromanage housework. I want a partner with equal initiative.”
― Gemma Hartley, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

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“While women have spent the past few decades being encouraged to reach for the masculine ideal of success, being told they can become anything their hearts desire in the professional realm, they have not been relieved of any of the emotional labor that waits for them when they return home.”
― Gemma Hartley, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

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