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As she amassed more and more, she noticed a trend in the way the authors of the letters — almost always mothers — were framing their family’s lives: … - Anne Helen Petersen
" "As she amassed more and more, she noticed a trend in the way the authors of the letters — almost always mothers — were framing their family’s lives: as an endless, packed, frenetic stream of busyness. She began to realize that they were, in fact, competing:“It’s about showing status,” Burnett told Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed. “That if you’re busy, you’re important. You’re leading a full and worthy life.”12 Busy-ness, in other words, as a very certain sort of class.
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