On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share
If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a good way to do it. And if you're wealthy, you can do it with a very… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
I feel that rich women are soft targets… There's a lot of legitimate resentment and anger about inequality in our culture, about money... I… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share
I'm a primate, you know? I need to be pro-social, like all of us; I need to be pro-social and affiliative. I need to… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
If you're trying to forge bonds on something other than kinship, and forge a tribal identity on something other than relatedness, conformity is a… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
Women are looking out for other women and their children. There are some great nannies, and there are some horrible nannies. And I don't… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East Side women… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
