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We Can Do Hard Things
The host describes a scene from the book where a woman who is considered unattractive is passed over for marriage and ends up living a full life in a convent, illustrating that not being useful to others can actually lead to freedom.
So it's this book about this woman and she doesn't get married off because she's not attractive. Okay?
— Episode: 261. How to Stretch Time with Jenny Odel...
Episode: 261. How to Stretch Time with Jenny Odell
The host describes a scene from the book where a woman who is considered unattractive is passed over for marriage and ends up living a full life in a convent, illustrating that not being useful to others can actually lead to freedom.
So it's this book about this woman and she doesn't get married off because she's not attractive. Okay?
So she starts this like wild convent with this, but these like renegade women, they end up saving their selves and actually living full lives.
And there's this scene where the woman who started it talks about how had she been pretty, she never would have been powerful or free. So she was like the old survivor.
