I am learning to care less what other people think. I am learning that the measure of my happiness is not weight loss but, rather, feeling more comfortable in my body.
I also have to live with being the type of woman who might—or probably always will—feel guilty that she never told this man she’s trans.
How could I forget? We had a blast but we were surrounded by misery. That is hard to take. I’m just being honest. Michael,
He’s a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at the local university. He is somewhat renowned in his field. This is what I’m told by his adoring colleagues and students at boring cocktail...
Her skin flushed darkly and she licked her lips over and over. Imagining me being used turned her on. She’s overeducated and has taken too many women’s studies classes. She uses words like empowerment...
For so long I’ve never talked about this. I suppose we should keep our shames to ourselves, but I’m sick of this shame. Silence hasn’t worked out that well. Or maybe this is someone else’s shame and I...
For every step forward, there is some asshole shoving progress back. Despite
Feminists are celebrating our victories and acknowledging our privilege when we have it. We’re simply refusing to settle. We’re refusing to forget how much work there is yet to be done. We’re refusing...
Everyone means well, but there’s a lot of bureaucracy. I prefer common sense.
Even now, you have packs of men following you, willing to make you their strange god.
Each time my mother took me to the mall, I went straight to Waldenbooks
Doctors generally adhere to the Hippocratic oath, where they swear to abide by an ethical code, where they swear to act, always, in their patients’ best interests. Unless the patient is overweight. I...
Deal with your resentment. Deal with your biases. Vigorously resist the urge to dismiss the gender problem. Make the effort and make the effort and make the effort until you no longer need to, until w...
But I also like myself, my personality, my weirdness, my sense of humor, my wild and deep romantic streak, how I love, how I write, my kindness and my mean streak. It is only now, in my forties, that...
Because in Atlas Shrugged, alpha male Francisco d’Anconia tells railroad company VP Dagny Taggart that she sounds happy in her new relationship: ‘But, you see, the measure of the hell you’re able to e...
Attending boarding school is how upper-middle-class girls run away, to be sure.
At night, Marcy worried about her ass and thighs. Her husband always said, Baby, you are perfect, and she flushed angrily. His assurances were so reflexive as to be insulting.
And now, she knew her husband had lied to her. So many years, following him to so many places, and he had repaid her with such staggering deceit.
Already that semester, the university had been steeped in controversy after students at a freshman week welcome event had been reported chanting: We like ’em young! Y is for your sister, O is for oh s...
All to often, suffering exists in a realm beyond vocabulary so we navigate that realm awkwardly, fumbling for the right words, hoping we can somehow approximate an understanding of matters that should...