101 easy steps to having it all, Mark Morford

I am delighted to report, you can have it all.

Did you know? Have you heard? Despite rumors to the contrary, despite what Anne-Marie Slaughter’s recent hot-button Atlantic magazine cover story wishes to tell you (and especially you women in particular), I’m here to say, it’s all a delicious and devious illusion.

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It’s also a terrific, nicely incendiary article, by the way, as written by a wildly overachieving superwoman, one who feels the feminist movement has sort of let her down. And why? Because, no matter how hard she tries — and believe me, Slaughter tries very, very hard — she has found it nearly impossible be a successful supermom and a top Princeton professor, a high-ranking Hillary Clinton staffer and an author of high-minded academic books, all while lamenting about the entirety of it all in a cover story for a major national magazine and all without stressing out her teenage sons, forgetting her husband’s name or sacrificing her very soul to the altar of acclaim, influence and some ill-defined notion of female empowerment.

But I repeat: despite all of this, you really can have it all. Well, mostly. It depends. But not in the way you, or perhaps Anne-Marie Slaughter, thinks. Isn’t that fabulous?

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