NY Times had an article (about a year ago, i just stumbled upon it) about my next door neighbor!! she is a student at yale and they interviewed her about what she wants to do. i think some people may view it as kind of anti-feminist because she wants to go to law school but afterwards, focus more on her family. i actually don’t see that as anti-feminist because she isn’t limiting herself. she isn’t majoring in home economics and wanting to marry and have kids right out of college. it’s clear she’s a highly motivated and intelligent woman who has ambitions and goals she wants to accomplish. just because she includes family in her plans doesn’t mean she’s selling herself short. in fact, i think the fact that she wants to go to law school, become a lawyer AND have a family makes her all the more ambitious. she wants to accomplish all that in less than 10 years (say she wants to have kids around 30). it’ll be all the more impressive when she accomplishes that.
most importantly, the NY times article had a picture of her and her mom (her mom’s nice too! my parents really like their entire family. my dad usually races to mow the lawn between our two houses before mr. lechner because mr. lechner, very generously, always mows all the lawn, including the portion that is ours.) sitting on their front porch. and in the background is my good ole house! yay brick front!! and green shutters! i love my house 
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1 auschick // Jan 26, 2007 at 3:23 pm
wow crystal, it’s like you know someone famous
2 Jenny // Jan 27, 2007 at 11:18 am
I think it’s very interesting that more and more young women who went through college and grad school are consciously making the decision to “focus on their family”. It’s like a backlash against feminism, or more effort to prove that it is possible to be a successful working mom.
and yeah…i remember that house! =)
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