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Is It Selfish to Choose Passion and Work Over Family?

By Brenda Knowles|2015-09-22T16:06:57-05:00July 26th, 2013|Categories: Introverts and Highly Sensitive People, Parenting, Personal Evolution, Popular Posts, Processing Divorce, Relationships|Tags: Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, freedom versus family, introversion and parenting, motherhood versus career, Norma Klein, Stephen King On Writing, writing and family|

Will I always feel a pang of guilt about loving time alone to work and write? Is it possible the best gift I can offer the world lies outside my role as a mother? Baby-sitters allowed me to preserve my sanity, to the extent that I have it. I always had at least three hours [...]

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