The work-family divide is the biggest issue for American women. But in some ways it's amazing how adjusted society has become to it. In the 1970s, as women began to take more jobs, society was reeling.


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As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific...
GAIL CARRIGER
I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and ...
GAIL CARRIGER
I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. ...
GAIL CARRIGER
Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to ...
GAIL CARRIGER
Smoke machines are the best!
GAIL CARRIGER
I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. ...
GAIL CARRIGER
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habi...
GAIL SHEEHY
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough....
GAIL SHEEHY
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
GAIL SHEEHY
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON
Everything seems simpler from a distance.
GAIL TSUKIYAMA
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
GAIL GODWIN
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you...
GAIL GODWIN
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer va...
GAIL PARENT
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prost...
GAIL SHEEHY
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
GAIL SHEEHY
We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people ...
GAIL SHEEHY
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
GAIL SHEEHY
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision...
GAIL DEVERS
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal:...
GAIL GODWIN
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer ...
GAIL PARENT
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
GAIL DEVERS
I never really drank coffee in college, but now I'm on my feet all day and out all night and can...
GAIL SIMMONS
In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years...
GAIL DEVERS
I love The Inn at Palmetto Bluff, an Auberge Property in Bluffton, South Carolina. It's a specta...
GAIL SIMMONS
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find ...
GAIL SHEEHY
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's ...
GAIL SHEEHY
When I got to be a CEO, I said: 'Right. I'm now going to tackle gender inequality head-on. I...
GAIL KELLY
Patience is the secret to good food.
GAIL SIMMONS
I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not goin...
GAIL SHEEHY
Eating a lot is an occupational hazard but it's a pretty great problem to have. I spend a lot of...
GAIL SIMMONS
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Pas...
GAIL SHEEHY
I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for wha...
GAIL BLANKE
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they con...
GAIL GODWIN
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
GAIL SHEEHY