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Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

It is just that all my life I have been so involved in my work that I guess one could say in general that, whenever I had to balance my private life and my profession, my profession always won out.

We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.

My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.

It's hard separating work from personal life.

If we strive and continue fighting as best we can, we can overcome a lot of the personal and professional problems that we do have.

For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.

I can no more separate my serious concerns about the world from my cockeyed way of seeing it than I can keep apart my personal and professional selves.