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QUINCY, ILL. -- An article in The Atlantic Magazine went viral and has women across the globe wondering if they can really balance work and family life.

The author of "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" says no, but some local women say it is doable as long as you are realistic.

"It's such a fine line of what you have to achieve, you have to strive and push yourself but realizing you're not going to be this Susie Homemaker mother that maybe your mom was and there's not going to be homemade cookies every night for your family, it's just not going to happen," Dr. Maria Connoyer said.

Dr. Maria Connoyer seems to have found the balance. She owns two dental practices, is married and has two sons. She says none of it would be possible without her husbands support.

"My husband is a huge help," Dr. Connoyer said. "He's the one that get them up for school, picks them up. I show up as soon as I can after work but really without him it would be impossible to do it all."

Author Anne-Marie Slaughter says it is impossible. She writes, women need to stop fooling themselves -- they cannot have it all, even with ambition and a supportive spouse. Slaughter wrote the article after stepping down from her job at the State Department to spend more time with her teenage sons.

"It seemed like her life was consumed by work and working 70 hours a week," a partner of Advanced Dental Care, Dr. Lacey Hauk said. "I think if you do anything 70 hours a week that you're going to have a little resentment that you're missing out on other things."

Dr. Hauk, owns her own dental practice as well. She found a balance of career and home life by working four days a week.

"My home life flourishes because I'm able to get away so when I am at home with my family I'm enjoying every single minute of it because I'm excited to be there and when I'm at work I'm excited to be here because it gives me that break."

Not every profession gives women the chance to make their own schedule.

"As a single person, if I had children there was no way I could do it all,"  Amie MaGuire, co-owner of Servpro said.

MaGuire spent the last five years dedicated to building her business. Now she is a a newlywed and trying to see if she really can have it all. The working women before her say yes, but...

"I think it's finding that position, that career path that allows you to have it all," Dr. Hauk said.

"I think you can have it all but you have to change your definition of what that is," Dr. Connoyer said. "You're not going to be at the job every single day and you're not going to be able to get your manicures and pedicures and be at the school and continue to grow in your profession. You have to pick and choose at the moment what's most important for your family and your professional life."

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