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Your insider edit of what’s truly worth it—and what’s simply good enough. Why Aren't You Done? There’s a Forbes piece making the rounds about “ambition guilt”—what it costs women to want more than culture has decided they’re allowed to have. It’s aimed at women in their 30s and 40s, the ones still hesitating to ask, to invest, to want. Real thing. But only half the story. The version they wrote is: I’m not allowed to want this yet.The version they didn’t is: I’m not allowed to still want...

THURSDAY • APRIL 23 • 2026 Good morning, Something is coming. Not slowly. Not quietly. And not to someone else. Over the next 25 years, $124 trillion—the largest transfer of wealth in recorded history—is going to move. Most of it is moving to women. This isn't a forecast, this is Bank of America, McKinsey, and Cerulli Associates all pointing at the same number. Women are about to control more wealth than at any other moment in human history. Let me tell you who that affects because it's not...

THURSDAY • APRIL 16 • 2026 Good morning, I've never been built for a traditional job. I like control and I don't like to be controlled. I've surrounded myself with people who support what I'll call an entrepreneurial spirit, though I've always struggled with that word. It sounds tactical. Masculine. That's never been my thing. I'm a creative with a point of view and no appetite to stay put. The higher the hill, the steeper the climb, the more interested I am in climbing it. Sometimes I wonder...

THURSDAY • APRIL 9 • 2026 Good morning, Obedience. What a loaded word. When my daughter was writing her marriage vows, I casually asked whether obedience was going to make an appearance. She gave me the look. You know the one. She walked herself down the aisle, by the way—not because she doesn’t love her father and me, but because she is a free-thinking, independent woman, and she wanted everyone there to know it from the first step. For the record, my preferred marriage vow is the mantra...

Good morning, Have you ever tried to get into a book club and failed? For years, while I moved around the country, that was me. I wanted in badly. I wrote one of my earliest pieces for PROVOKED about book club gatekeeping. Yes, it's a thing. When I finally settled in New York, I did what any woman with strong opinions does. I got a few friends together and started one. Besides the sometimes unhinged conversations, book club forces me to read books I might never have picked—or finished—on my...

This is your preview of the Sunday edition.You’ll have access for the next two weeks. After that, it moves to PROVOKEDplus. Join PROVOKEDplus All About Eve, Anne Baxter, Bette Davis, 1950/Everett Collection Your insider edit of what’s truly worth it—and what’s simply good enough. This week: a word you'll start noticing everywhere, a cast iron skillet your grandmother would approve, and an artist bending highway guardrails into something worth seeing. Falsenice: The Politeness That Keeps Us...