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.
At the time I was, and would continue to be for many years, obsessed with the Sweet Valley High books. I read them voraciously because I was nothing like Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield or even Enid R...
Attending boarding school is how upper-middle-class girls run away, to be sure.
Because I have so many deeply held opinions about gender equality, I feel a lot of pressure to live up to certain ideals. I am supposed to be a good feminist who is having it all, doing it all. Really...
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...
Celebrities understand the economy of thinness, and most of them are willing to participate in that economy, taking to social media, where they pose for selfies with their cheeks sucked in to make the...
Certainly, it has shown me the importance of inclusivity and acceptance (not merely tolerance) for diverse body types.
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...
Disagreement, however, is not anger. Pointing out the many ways in which misogyny persists and harms women is not anger. Conceding the idea that anger is an inappropriate reaction to the injustice wom...
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...
Each time my mother took me to the mall, I went straight to Waldenbooks
Estou sempre me atendo à esperança do amanhã.
Every time I watch a yogurt commercial I think, my god, I want to be that happy. I really do.
Every woman I know is on a perpetual diet. I know I don’t feel comfortable in my body, but I want to and that’s what I am working toward. I am working toward abandoning the damaging cultural messages...
Everyone means well, but there’s a lot of bureaucracy. I prefer common sense.
Everything was out of my control and I love control, so all my trigger points were being pressed at the exact same time.
Feminism has certainly helped me find my voice. Feminism has helped me believe my voice matters, even in this world where there are so many voices demanding to be heard.
Few things work in practice as well as they do in theory. Justice is anything but blind. All too often, the people who most need justice benefit the least. The statistics about who is incarcerated and...
For every step forward, there is some asshole shoving progress back.
For heaven’s sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao?...
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