From "Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety" by Judith Warner.
"Our selfhood was wrapped up in [. . .] control-not empowerment. And control through what means? [. . .] self-control, personal achievement, self-perfection [. . . ] For instead of using whatever tools of self-empowerment we had to gain control of our surroundings and change our world, we turned them inward and used them to police ourselves. Rather than become rebels or poineers like our baby boomer predecessors, we became a generation of control freaks."
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