Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming … - Anne Roiphe

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Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Anne Roiphe

Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or during the inception of the women's movement, whether as working parents or homemakers, whether married or divorced, our mothers faced conundrums--what should they be? how should they act?--that became our uncertainties.

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