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You Say You Want a Devolution? →
Since 1992, as the technological miracles and wonders have propagated and the political economy has transformed, the world has become radically and profoundly new. (And then there’s the miraculous drop in violent crime in the United States, by half.) Here is what’s odd: during these same 20 years, the appearance of the world (computers, TVs, telephones, and music players aside) has changed...
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Obama for America: The Lily Ledbetter Act →
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“An anonymous coworker—to this day, I don’t know who—had left a pencil-written note on a torn piece of paper with some numbers on it. It showed how much more my male coworkers were making, even though they had less education, training and experience.
I’d been at Goodyear almost 20 years, and was still making 20 percent less than the lowest-paid male supervisor in my same position....
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Not a Fair Question
I’ve never been the type of girl who thinks men are from Mars and women are from Venus, the type who speaks in platitudes like, “Men suck,” when a friend is having dude problems. I have a brother, and male friends, and I’ve dated men who have been incredibly kind to me and who I still consider to be great people. But lately, my faith in the inherent goodness of the opposite...
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“So many mothers say they want their daughters to be independent, but what they...”
– Kelly Cutrone
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The Autumn of Joan Didion →
What Didion wrote about were the exquisitely tender and often deeply melancholy feelings that are such a large part of the inner lives of women and especially of very young women—and girls—who are leaving behind the uncomplicated, romance-drenched state of youth and coming to terms with what comes next….
Didion is the writer who expressed most eloquently the eternal-girl impulse, the one...
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“The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt in You Learn by Living
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The Bell Jar at 40 →
Like The Catcher in the Rye, it is a touchstone for a certain kind of introspective, moody teenager—the kind of teenager who used to listen to the Cure and, later on, Tori Amos, and who these days listens to—actually I have no idea, but she definitely has a blog.
I need to reread The Bell Jar. It was one of my very favorite books in high school but I’ve forgotten much of it.
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‘Can I Help You?’ Irks the Web-Savvy Customer →
On a Friday morning last autumn, a reporter walked into a Gap store at the Grove, a shopping mall in Los Angeles. A young, bright-eyed woman in jeggings and a side ponytail bounded over with a warm greeting.
“How are you?” she asked. “Can I help you with anything?”
Over the next 15 minutes, four other similarly young, beaming and bejegginged women approached with the same question. The first...