You Can't Have All the Things That You Want

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I feel like a lot of this generation of women with any amount of privilege that have grown up it, the myth has been you can have all the things that you want. And I think that's even part of it. We have to in our heads kind of vilify the alternative. It doesn't mean one is better than the other wrong, but just that taking one path will mean that you cannot walk down the other path.

1. What to do when you’ve done everything you were supposed to do and ended up in a place you don’t want to be.

2. Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself.

3. The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities.

4. The gift of a “midlife crisis”

5. What a mother’s job really is.

About Celeste:

Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is available now. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

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