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In an exclusive excerpt from her new book Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours , author and Wharton economist Corinne Low, Ph.D., explains what happened when she tried to do just that

"I not only felt as though I didn’t 'have it all,' I felt like I didn’t have anything ," she writes

Low's book is out Sept. 23 and available for preorder now, wherever books are sold

In 2017, I gave birth to my son, and also a midlife crisis. Suddenly, my two-hour commute from our home in New York City to my job at the University of Pennsylvania went from inconvenient but sustainable to the bane of my existence. And my marriage, which had seemed flawed but in a cute, work-in-progress kind of way, seemed to be falling apart at the seams.

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