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I'm a Successful Playwright... but Feminism has Turned me into a Failure
Daily Mail ^ | 10th February 2009 | Zoe Lewis

Posted on 02/09/2009 6:28:04 PM PST by nickcarraway

As a successful playwright this woman should have the world at her feet. So why, at 36, does she feel bitterly unfulfilled?

Though I never thought I would be saying this, being a free woman isn't all it's cracked up to be. Is that the rustle of taffeta I hear as the suffragettes turn in their grave? Very possibly.

My mother - a film-maker - was a hippy who kept a pile of dusty books by Germaine Greer and Erica Jong by her bedside. (Like every good feminist, she didn't see why she should do all the cleaning.) She imbued me with the great values of choice, equality and sexual liberation.

As a result, I fought with my older brother and won, and at university I beat the rugby lads at drinking games. I was not to be messed with. Inner truth: Zoe Lewis has come to yearn for marriage and motherhood

Inner truth: Zoe Lewis has come to yearn for marriage and motherhood

But, at nearly 37, those same values leave me feeling cold. Now, I want love and children, but they are nowhere to be seen.

When I was growing up, I was led to believe by my mother and other women of her generation that women could 'have it all', and, more to the point, that we wanted it all. To that end, I have spent 20 years ruthlessly pursuing my dream of being a successful playwright. I have sacrificed all my womanly duties and laid it all at the altar of a career. And was it worth it? The answer has to be a resounding no.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: feminism; genx
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1 posted on 02/09/2009 6:28:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Another birth control victim.


2 posted on 02/09/2009 6:32:37 PM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: nickcarraway
I have tried everything to stop the clocks, to stall time and find my ideal partner. I've considered the whole 'Let's adopt a baby from an African orphanage' thing. I have even had my eggs frozen (yes, really!) in the hope that if I do meet the right man, I will be in a position to have the children I now long for.

Note to any man with 50ft of this woman...run away!

3 posted on 02/09/2009 6:35:52 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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Now, I want love and children, but they are nowhere to be seen.

Nothing personal, but, uh, I understand why. You still look like your hippy mother. Get feminine, guy!

4 posted on 02/09/2009 6:36:16 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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To: nickcarraway
There were plenty of men and even a marriage offer from someone with whom I would have happily settled down. But no, I wasn't prepared to give up my dreams, the life I had been told was the right and proper one for a modern woman.

Reminds me of a story I saw in my armory...

A man asked a woman to marry him. The woman said "No." So the man lived happily ever after. The end.

5 posted on 02/09/2009 6:39:11 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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6 posted on 02/09/2009 6:40:14 PM PST by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: nickcarraway

I feel sadness for her and women like her. They have been conned, and unfortunately, we have only one life to live.


7 posted on 02/09/2009 6:42:43 PM PST by SnarlinCubBear (Get Sarcasma - Comforting relief from the use of irony, mocking and conveying contempt)
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Guilty!

Ooopps. Wrong thread.


8 posted on 02/09/2009 6:44:36 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
That's 37??
Sorry, but she looks older than I am. Maybe it was drinking the rugby players under the table too many times.
9 posted on 02/09/2009 6:48:39 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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She could have married him and continued her career. As a writer I'm sure she had plenty of flexibility.
10 posted on 02/09/2009 6:50:15 PM PST by Niuhuru (Fine, here's my gun, but let me give you the bullets first. I'll send them to you through the barrel)
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To: nickcarraway
To that end, I have spent 20 years ruthlessly pursuing my dream of being a successful playwright.

Not quite. Our little friend Zoe spent 20 years ruthlessly pursuing someone else's idea of feminism, hiding inside a career as a playwright.

Not only can no one have everything, Zoe is going to wind up with pitifully little.

13 posted on 02/09/2009 7:03:10 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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I know quite a few 60-year-old women who look younger and healthier than her.


14 posted on 02/09/2009 7:15:15 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: nickcarraway

Read the article.

These women have destroyed countless lives beyond their own.

These women can rot in hell.


15 posted on 02/09/2009 7:17:23 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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Is that a rosary around her neck? They aren’t jewelry, sweetie.


16 posted on 02/09/2009 7:29:01 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (What's Obama's Secret?)
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This was very nearly me until shockingly intervened when I turned 32. I came across a list--a few weeks ago in boxes in my husband's and I's garage--I wrote when I was 28 years old. It was an incredibly ambitious unfolding of a continued career and dreams. As I ended this exhaustive list of all of my hope for my future unfolding life that was separated only by periods and filled margin to margin from the top of one side to the bottom of the other there was never a mention of love life, a husband, a family. Nothing. Nata.

Unbelievable. I remember that young lady and she had no interest whatsoever in such things.

Today my marriage and my husband is the second most meaningful, fulfilled (as well as ever changing) accomplishment and gift of my entire life. The first is my relationship with my Lord.

17 posted on 02/09/2009 7:35:07 PM PST by GOP Poet
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until GOD shockingly intervened (forgot the God part above)


18 posted on 02/09/2009 7:36:29 PM PST by GOP Poet
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

19 posted on 02/09/2009 7:39:26 PM PST by narses (http://www.theobamadisaster.com/)
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Is that a rosary around her neck? They aren’t jewelry, sweetie.

Rosary around the neck is the ultimate cry for help.

20 posted on 02/09/2009 7:48:54 PM PST by littlehouse36
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