Maya Shanbhag Lang | What We Carry
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A Worthless Girl
As a kid, you have this one mam who is incredibly smart and credibly accomplished. And then also married to a father who is sort of like sharing this lens on the value of of girls and women. That had to have created just a really high level sort of cognitive dissonance for you. My mother wasn't just this accomplished physician. She was someone who had a back one of steel. I mean, she did not take a word of flack from anyone. Her power and her intelligence and her strength, i think was unsettling to him. He would say things all the time about men being smarter than women.
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