Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
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2019
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Long Island Compromise
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2024
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On Being 40(ish): Fifteen Writers on the Prime of Their Lives
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Fleishman Is in Lockdown
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The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
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The New York Times Book Review - July 11, 2021 - Perils of Diaspora
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Het compromis van Long Island
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“Rachel and I, we’d been raised to do what we wanted to do, and we had; we’d been successful, and we’d shown everyone. We didn’t need to wear apocryphal T-shirts because we already knew the secret, which was this: that when you did succeed, when you did outearn and outpace, when you did exceed all expectations, nothing around you really shifted. You still had to tiptoe around the fragility of a man, which was okay for the women who got to shop and drink martinis all day—this was their compensation; they had done their own negotiations—but was absolutely intolerable for anyone who was out there working and getting respect and becoming the person that others had to tiptoe around. That these men could be so delicate, that they could lack any inkling of self-examination when it came time to try to figure out why their women didn’t seem to be batshit enthusiastic over another night of bolstering and patting and fellating every insecurity out of them—this was the thing we’d find intolerable.”
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
“It was like those T-shirts all my daughter’s friends were wearing to school now, the ones that said THE FUTURE IS FEMALE in big block letters. How they march around in broad daylight in shirts like that. But the only reason it’s tolerated is that everyone knows it’s just a lie we tell to girls to make their marginalization bearable. They know that eventually the girls will be punished for their futures, so they let them wear their dumb message shirts now.”
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
“A wife isn’t like an ultra-girlfriend or a permanent girlfriend. She’s an entirely new thing. She’s something you made together, with you as an ingredient. She couldn’t be the wife without you.”
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
― Fleishman Is in Trouble
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