Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

Ending the "Manel"

Doing this requires understanding ourselves.

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Elise Loehnen
Feb 14, 2024
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I spent part of last week in Charlottesville with a group of incredible women (thank you to everyone who came out). At dinner the first night, the conversation turned to the Envy chapter of On Our Best Behavior, where every chat about the book unfailingly tends to go. This is the chapter about women’s covert and undiagnosed wanting, and how we tend to d…

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