Drew Barrymore Says Women Can't Do It All, Cites Quantum Physics

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The last time Drew Barrymore declared that women cannot do everything, she caught herself in an evidence-less pickle. The actress repeats her previous statement for More, bringing with her a quantum physics textbook and a disclaimer, "I shouldn't say this, because, I'll get in trouble for it, but I'll say it anyway, women can't do it all." She explains:

Quantum physics actually says you can't do it all. Like, you can't do everything at every minute of every day; it's actually not mathematically, molecularly plausible. I do think that women can do everything they want to do.

Un-simply put, science says humans can't "do it all," but Drew says women can do everything they want to do. Thanks science!