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is a familiar dynamic for a lot of prosecutors with a mortgage and tuitions to think about. You spend the first half of your career going after the bad guys and then the second half representing them.
“The time has come for the pendulum to find a healthy resting point between the extremes. All child-raising choices should be acceptable, but it’s up to the individuals making these choices to understand the responsibilities and ramifications of their decisions.”
― Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
― Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
“She had succeeded where the other technician had failed. “It was an incredible moment, and it made me think I could do science.”
― The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
― The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
“Anger is a funny thing. And it does funny things to us if we keep it inside. I encourage you to consider a question: Who benefits, my dear, when you force yourself to not feel angry?” She tilted her head and looked at me so hard I thought she could see right into my bones. She raised her eyebrows. “Clearly not you.”
― When Women Were Dragons
― When Women Were Dragons
“The research itself could depress you: New mothers who have fewer than twelve weeks off of work are more likely to experience depressive symptoms, and those with fewer than eight paid weeks off are more likely to have a decrease in their overall health. (Another recent study pinpointed twenty-four weeks as the amount of time needed for mothers to be least likely to experience depression.)”
― The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby
― The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Success After Baby
“For a woman, having a baby can open the floodgates of repressed or hidden emotions. That is often when mothers have a breakdown, as in postpartum depression, or come to me with feelings of depression or anxiety that may be delayed postpartum depression responses. Repression is a great thing if it holds, but like the proverbial can of worms, when the defenses that a person has used her whole life break down, all of the sadness and loss that is connected to feeling your mother was not there enough when you were little starts leaking out of the lockbox of the unconscious”
― Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
― Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters
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