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The End of Mom Guilt
It’s an immense privilege to consider work as anything beyond basic survival. A life dedicated to creating art of any kind is, for most of us, precarious and unsustainable. A modern-day marriage of two artists is as financially sturdy as sand. I knew intellectually that I wanted to be a mother more than I needed to be a writer. I just hadn’t calcul
... See moreJennifer Romolini • Ambition Monster: A Memoir
Parents who took her ambition as an indictment of their own lack of ambition.
Ryan Holiday • Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave (The Stoic Virtues Series)
Women are in the midst of a revolutionary reckoning with our ambitions. We’re not resigning en masse—because who can afford to quit her job in this economy?!—but we are trying to figure out a new set of goals and guidance for our professional lives. Thanks to long-simmering inequality and stubborn sexism, clarified by the pain of the pandemic, our ... See more
Ann Friedman • What Comes After Ambition?
We are witnessing a shift right now. A stale version of the American Dream is crumbling, breaking apart, and being discarded as a new version emerges. People are widening the narrow roles they’ve been assigned. Many of us are refusing to feel guilty or shameful for not following convention when it comes to success or building family and community.
... See moreMia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
What I soon realized is that maintaining a firewall between my “mom” self and the rest of my self was making motherhood much less interesting. The rest of myself was being so challenged — psychologically, spiritually, philosophically, creatively and intellectually — by caring for my son. But I resisted it, and tried to keep care small because nobod... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not to Lose Myself in It."
It was fine to have ambitions, but it was another matter to work out of necessity, face a sex-segregated job market, and do double duty at home as well.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Goodwill Hunting #10: cottagecore, girlboss culture, & the end of ambition
Danielle Vermeergoodwillhunt.substack.com