Issue #76: Can we be each other's parallel lives?
We’re taught to compare and covet what others have – but what if we share in it, instead?
In 1982, Helen Gurley Brown, the then-editor of US Cosmopolitan magazine, released her book Having It All: Love, Success, Sex, Money, Even If You're Starting with Nothing, establishing a feminist debate which rages some four decades later: ‘Can women have it all?’. The book received criticism of the same ilk as Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, published a dec…
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