Why Women Should Embrace a ‘Good Enough’ Life
28th April 2013
Not something that you’d expect to find in the Washington Post.
In my years as a journalist, I have written and spoken a great deal about women’s lives and struggles, and wrote a book about the conflicts facing successful female professionals. But today, 16 years into life as a working mother and 23 years into a marriage, I’ve come to question many of the truths I once held dear. The woman I wanted to be at 22 is not the woman I wanted to be at 38 — not even close — and she is certainly not who I am now at 55.
When life meets ideology, ideology tends to lose.
The debate has become twisted and simplistic, as if we’re merely trying to figure out how women can become more like men.
That has defined the core of ‘feminism’ since the 60s. Kinda late to the party….
During my high school years in the early 1970s, revolution was in the air. Across the bay was Berkeley, the home of free speech. Twenty miles up the road was Haight-Ashbury, the home of free love. And almost everyone I knew was protesting Vietnam and embracing civil rights.
I had similar experiences. But I never liked those people. I suspect that history has proven me right — they weren’t really very likeable.