Inspiration from The Iron Lady

Forgive the look... it was the '80s!  (source)

I watched Meryl Streep (one of my favorite actresses of all time!) in The Iron Lady, and I loved her portrayal of Margaret Thatcher.

When they showed her as a young woman, she reacted to her future husband's proposal by saying this:

"I love you so much but I will never be one of those women... who stays silent and pretty on the arm of her husband. Or remote and alone in the kitchen -doing the washing up, for that matter. One's life must matter... Beyond all the cooking and the cleaning and the children. One's life must mean more than that. I cannot die washing up a teacup!"

Oh, I connected.  I absolutely connected.  Because I want to be a mother.  But I really want to have an amazing career.  I am driven, and it makes me so proud and happy.

Life is about choices, and (fictional) Margaret knew what she wanted and wouldn't compromise.  It cost her at times, and she made sacrifices.  She was a wife and mother, as well as Prime Minister.  But she was driven and didn't resign herself to something she didn't want.

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There are some women who aspire to be amazing homemakers and mothers.  And they hold fast to that dream in the same way, Iron Ladies all the same.  I respect that 110%.  We should all be Iron Ladies in life, and know what we want to achieve.  We should find partners who want to help us achieve those dreams, and go after them.

For me, that's chasing what I want like Leslie Knope.  And eating breakfast food like Ron Swanson.