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“She ends her observation with the statement “I can do it all, but all of it is not mine to do.”
― Gemma Hartley, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

“Tiffany Dufu writes in Drop the Ball, “Until the contributions that women make at work are seen as just as valuable as the contributions women make at home, the contributions that men make at home will never be considered as valuable as the contributions men make at work. Just as women need affirmation on both fronts, so do men.”
― Gemma Hartley, Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward

“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca