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While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, like a lack of Social Security benefits or retirement plans.
Quote by -Alissa Quart
There is a psychological and physical toll from the pressure to recreate ourselves in midlife. To survive as workers, we have to deny, on some level, the realities of our bodies - bodies that age and give birth.
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Self-reinvention is an encouraging conceit. It is simply not always a possible one.
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I think there's a contempt for care work and caregiving in this country that seeps into how we think about mothers, professional workers who are mothers.
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When I got pregnant with my daughter, both my husband and I were freelancers, and we didn't have that much security. We had savings. We were better off than many people, but we didn't have, you know, pensions and all the things that people used to have.
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Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham's 'Girls' is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
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Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed.
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At the end of the day, the truth is that if - when - robots prevail, so many vocations will actually become close to impossible. Save for the profession of making robots, that is.
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As consumers, we can pressure corporations both to monitor and improve workplace conditions overseas - when inspections reveal violations, these companies should address the gaps immediately.
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'Mr. Robot,' in particular, signals the rise of a fresh post-Occupy portrayal of the wealth gap. No longer is the story of income inequity delivered via a well-meaning, crushingly earnest indie film by John Sayles or in a single laugh line on 'Roseanne.'
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Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.
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Approximating authenticity online is not such a tall order. In fact, it may be the very least we can do.
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I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about things like death, social oppression, or yes, my fertility, while I watch them.
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For the rich and powerful, pregnancy might not be an obstacle - it might even help one's career. But for the rest of us, it remains a hindrance.
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Although federal law prohibits companies with 15 or more employees from discriminating against pregnant job seekers, it can be quite hard for an ordinary woman to land a job if she lets prospective bosses know she is pregnant.
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In an economy where women now make up half the work force, we're going to have to address the treatment of pregnant employees more systemically. The passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would better protect against the discrimination pregnant job seekers face.
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The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.
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Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.
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There are actually very few deeply 'gifted' kids with transcendent cognitive or artistic abilities.
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I like being myself. Maybe just slimmer, with a few less wrinkles.
Quote by -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
I was caught on the freeway for hours when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The entire city had to be evacuated. I observed lives threatened by catastrophes and a whole range of behaviour. What could people do during a crisis?
Quote by -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.
Quote by -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.
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I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.
Quote by -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It's different for different people, and for a woman it's important to look as good she wants to look. But you don't need to do it for someone else or to impress some male out there. You do it for your own sake. You wear what makes you feel good, you put make-up and jewellery - whatever gives you self-confidence.
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I took a little break after 'The Palace of Illusions' to clear my head.
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I want my books to force readers to recognise the fact that a woman is a human being just like them.
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Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
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I was very fortunate that all my holidays I'd spend with my grandfather, experiencing a much more traditional way of life and listening to these wonderful stories, which I now feel are such an important part of Indian thinking.
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I love visual art. I painted for many years when I was younger. I have studied modern/contemporary Indian art a bit and am very impressed with the talent in India.
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With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.
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It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.
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I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
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If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.
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I think, we all learned that when we are afraid it's easy to want to blame, and the people we want to blame are the people who don't look like us.
Quote by -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.
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I started writing after the death of my grandfather - memories, poems, etc. It was very personal; for years I did not share my writing with anyone.
Quote by -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni