"We're telling young girls, 'Get a job, advance your career, your career is the most important thing that you have in your life.' And I think it's a false promise, man. I think it's a false promise; it doesn't give you happiness."
One reason talk of giving up leaves a bad taste in the mouth, writes psychoanalyst Adam Phillips in his book On Giving Up, is that it is felt to be an ominous foreshadowing of, or reminder of the ultimate giving up that is suicide.
Human beings and their basic nature are the same everywhere...The theme is woman, the theme is marginalised people...to be a voice to the voiceless community.
