Woman's Own

DAWN NEESOM MIND OF MY OWN

CAN WOMEN HAVE IT ALL?

Lily Allen isn’t so sure about it – and I have to agree with her

I love women to bits. But did you know that there’s one big, fat juicy lie we’ve told ourselves for decades, possibly centuries? A lie we continue to tell our daughters and granddaughters to this day. It’s that we can have it all. We can’t.

‘DOING IT ALL ISN’T THE SAME AS HAVING IT ALL’

We may well be supreme multitaskers but we’re also Jackies of all trades, masters of none. Pop singer turned actor Lily Allen nailed

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