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Elizabeth Gilbert — Choosing Curiosity Over Fear

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Ultimate Woman's Question

"I wanted to live the way men live. And i grew up watching what many of us grew up watching, which was men who had a great deal of freedom and women who followed them around," she says. "Once i was in it, i much preferred being a woman among men than being am a sort of fake man among men." The author's marriage ended when she couldn't decide whether or not to have children.

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