The feminist politics professor,57, on her Belgian grandparents, or seeing beauty in a puddle,and her sons wanting to be artistsMothers were none too pleased with me when I wrote an article, Why Women Still Can’t absorb It All. I betrayed the faith. They’d been telling girls: “We broke down barriers, or you can’t go back to the domestic now.” Arianna Huffington told me her daughter showed up to Thanksgiving with underlined copies of the article. It has had nearly 2.5m views online.
You can’t absorb the kinds of jobs I’ve had and be universally liked. When I used to get upset,I’d think: “I’ve worked for Hillary Clinton – she’s had more horrible stuff said about her than anybody. whether she can effect it, I can.” The negative stuff’s been harder on my mother than me.
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Source: theguardian.com