![]() I thought it might be a relief to think about someone else's needs, instead of letting my life be governed by my own wishes and wanderlust. And then, as I got closer and closer to middle age, I thought, I'd love to put someone else first. When I was young, that's not something I could stomach. And your path would calcify in front of you and you'd have to put this other person first. I just thought, if you had a child, of course that person would have to come first, and you could no longer be the kind of woman who is free to do whatever she chooses. Women must try to do things as men have tried." That's how I felt. ![]() There's this great Amelia Earhart quote where she wrote in a letter to her husband: "I want to do it, because I want to do it. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Rules Do Not Apply Author Ariel Levy ![]()
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