Essays
The Particular Loneliness of Being Admired
There is a woman in my life who has been admired for as long as I have known her, and I have watched the admiration do something to her over the years that...
Evelyn Lawson
Published stories
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Essays
Essays
What We Lost When We Started Calling It Self-Care
The phrase self-care entered the cultural bloodstream in the 1970s through the writing of Black feminist activists who used it to describe something specif...
Leadership
The Loneliness of Leading Other Women
There is a story we tell about women supporting women, and then there is the experience of being a woman in charge of other women, and the two have less in...
Leadership
What Women Leaders Are Quietly Carrying Every Day
There is a particular kind of woman who walks into the office looking entirely put together. Her calendar is full. Her team relies on her. Her clients trus...
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