Many women are torn between conflicting desires: to be good homemakers like their mothers and to have successful careers like their fathers. Their candles are burning at both ends, because they are trying to live up to two old role models rather than establishing a new one for themselves.
許多雙生涯女性，既想像母親一樣是理家高手，又想像父親一樣在事業上嶄露頭角，蠟燭兩頭燒而筋疲力竭，這就是企圖將兩種舊的角色範本強套至自己頭上，而沒有建立新角色範本的後果。