My partner, my companion, my woman, works harder than I do at work.

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Every career woman at one point or another needs to do the soul search, is MY career more imporant or are OUR children more important.

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"When I turned 40, I looked down at the scale and thought, 'Oh my, I must really do something about this, ' " the Herndon, Virginia, woman says.

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