"...We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins…We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive are our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers…We are the daughters of the feminists who said 'You can be anything' and we heard 'You have to be everything.'" -Courtney E. Martin's "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters"
..just thought this was an interesting and really relevant quote, as is the following:
“women our age are fighting a tougher battle than our mothers and grandmothers. they fought to be seen by men as more than decorative sexual objects, for the right not to be judged on their looks alone. our generation is supposed to be ceos, mothers, wives, expert lovers, have perfect bodies, run marathons, make a million dollars, be gourmet chefs, swing a golf club, never eat, never get tired. men of any generation have never been asked to do what feminism asks of us. we are multitaskers, but we’re not superhuman. the standard for what is expected of us, and what we expect of ourselves, is too high. we’re supposed to be all things to all people - and we wonder why we’re unhappy.” -Stacy London
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