The Difference Between Choosing Your Life and Accepting It

Does a woman ever make the choice to embrace domesticity over freedom, or is it something else entirely?

Alison Konecki
Human Parts
Published in
14 min readJun 11, 2019

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Photo: Nicolas Courtade/Getty Images

MMarie was the matriarch of the farm. François, her husband, managed the vineyards, the almond fields, and the animals. The farmhouse was Marie’s dominion. It was a traditional arrangement, one…

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Alison Konecki
Human Parts

Crusading for the arts by day, writing by night, and traveling as often as possible | www.alisonkonecki.com