“Without exception the women that I know who are doing well in their jobs and are flourishing and happy, married men who do at least 50 percent of the housework and child care.
She now sees the results of bad choices some of her contemporaries made in their younger years. “We get very bad advice about romance and love don’t we? As you get older the prescription on your feminist glasses gets stronger and you just start seeing the horror everywhere in culture.”Ĭommon tropes in pop culture about meeting a man who’s “useless” but “you love him anyway” prevailed when she was a younger woman. Her new book gives women the straight forward advice to not marry a ‘c’ word. Moran has been happily married to writer Peter Paphides for 20 years. “Margaret Thatcher said there’s no such thing as society, there is, it’s middle age women doing all this unpaid care work that holds us all together.” Ī woman in middle age is “the fifth emergency service for those around you” Much has changed since she wrote How to Be a Woman ten years ago. She's written two volumes of collected journalism, Moranthology and Moranifesto, and a novel, How to Build a Girl, which has been adapted as a movie. Moran was a published author at the age of 16 and became a columnist for The Times at 18. “The amount of treats you can give yourself in a busy schedule is so few, basically I’ve got crisps, I’ve got my vape and I’ve got looking in the mirror and thinking that’s not too bad.” “No one really cares for middle aged women, no one asks middle age woman how they are. “Rather than this sad, deflated Gruffalo kind of woe face that you increasingly seem to accumulate once you get past your forties.” “I wanted look how I feel, which is happy. She wanted her face to look like how she felt inside, she says.
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