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“ They do not want to admit or accept this one big truth: women can't have it all. (Neither can men, but that's an entirely different essay.)”

Exactly. One of the basic conservative (constrained view) insights is that life requires tradeoffs and there’s no such thing as a free lunch. We all have to make the best of an imperfect situation and different individuals will balance those tradeoffs differently.

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