How to Live Without a Script with Martha Beck and Rowan Mangan
The One You Feed
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The Disappointment of Women in a Prescriptive Culture
Mark O'Mara: Did you always have a sense of your own wild, open, free sort of self in this way that we're talking about? This don't know mind or this rejecting sort of these prescriptive ideas that just didn't fit? Does that happen to you over time or with a defining moment? Like how did you get to where you are based on where you started? Who was it? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a great feminist said, women have been systematically disappointed in the law, the polity and the economy and my life's work. And what happened to me is I was born a total people pleaser in a culture that was completely against my true
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