When you can't find someone to follow, find a way to lead by example.
What goes unsaid is that women might be more ambitious and focused because we’ve never had a choice.
The repetition of gender acts in reality television becomes grossly stylized through artificially tanned skin, elaborate hair extensions, dramatic makeup, surgically enhanced bodies, and chemically in...
Ten minutes before my first class, I run to the bathroom and vomit. I’m afraid of public speaking, which makes teaching complicated.
Por que encaramos os limites que as pessoas criam para si mesmas como desafios? Por que vemos algo que impõe um limite e o forçamos?
Marcy never knew what to say during these moments, but she smiled politely because she understood these people and how they existed only in relation to those around them.
Luck and loneliness, it would seem, are very compatible.
Life, apparently, requires a trigger warning.This is the uncomfortable truth: everything is a trigger for someone. There are things you cannot tell just by looking at someone.We all have history. You...
Just because you survive something does not mean you are strong. The
I’m not even sure what the sisterhood is, but the idea of a sisterhood menaces me, quietly, reminding me of how bad a feminist I am.
I've noticed while cooking, how ingredients in their individual and naked state and be a bit repulsive but necessary, kind of like people.
I knew how to make sense of complicated things, as long as they had nothing to do with me.
I appreciate that at least some of who I am rises out of the worst day of my life and I don't want to change who I am.
He was so kind to me and never wanted anything from me but friendship. That was something of a revelation to me, that a young man could be kind.
Weight loss, thinness really, was social currency.
Sheltered. I knew nothing about anything. I didn’t know I could suffer or the breadth and scope of what suffering could be. I didn’t know that I could give voice to my suffering when I did suffer. I d...
It’s pretty easy to frame an argument convincingly by being selective in the data presented.
All too often, critical acclaim for black films is built upon the altar of black suffering or subjugation.
When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.
When women respond negatively to misogynistic or rape humor, they are sensitive and branded as feminist, a word that has, as of late, become a catchall term for woman who