Summary of Colette Dowling's Maxing Out

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Sample insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Cinderella Complex is the fear women have of being financially independent. We are taught that being a woman means not having money, not managing it, and not being financially independent.

#2

I had just finished selling two homes to pay off part of a debt to the IRS, and was still reeling from the shock. I had always thought of myself as someone who didn’t have money problems, but now I was having to acknowledge a whole hidden part of myself.

#3

I was a struggling writer and the wife of a struggling writer, so I had little money. I was able to ignore the fact that I was avoiding dealing with money because I had so little of it.