• 6:00 the alarm goes off
• 15 minutes of yoga
• Shower, Shave, and Shampoo
• 7:00 wake the angry, sleepy kids
• Home-cooked breakfast
• “Where’s my shoes”
• Hair, make-up, and fighting a stuck zipper
• Carpool drop-off
• 10 hour work days
• Cook the dinner, eat the dinner, complain, clean up the dinner
• Laundry, groceries
• “I need a new Sharpie for school tomorrow”
• Run to the store, home from the store
• Kids in bed
• Deep breath, feet up, finally take off the four-inch heels

And, then I ask: “Did telling women they should have an education, career, and a family really make women’s lives better or did it just turn up the heat on the pressure cooker of life?”