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“there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax on the China Station

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“Some people ask: “Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?” Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

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“Stories have to be told or else they die.”
― Kate Morton, The Clockmaker's Daughter

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“make sense out of a world that could produce trips to the moon and silicon chips and computer robots and satellites, yet never touch the impoverished hearts that could still torture, terrorize and kill without mercy or feeling.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha

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“A meta-analysis of almost two hundred studies conducted in more than fifteen countries found that women are more physically and emotionally exhausted than men, accounting for their higher rates of burnout in many sectors, such as media. "An awful lot of middle-aged women are furious and overwhelmed," wrote Ada Calhoun in a 2016 article titled "The New Midlife Crisis: Why (and How) It's Hitting Gen X Women." What we don't talk about enough is how the deck is stacked against their feeling any other way.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

tags: burnout, exhaustion, gen-x, women

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