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For women, life is set up like a video game.

Meredith Bryan • If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

she is feeling on Littlemonsters.com, her own personal network for the One Percenters. She has shared with them the heartbreak of betrayal of lifelong friends and mentors who have taken advantage of her. She laments about her “massive struggles with [her] body image.” She has shared personal details of time spent with her boyfriend, actor Taylor Ki

Jackie Huba • Monster Loyalty: How Lady Gaga Turns Followers into Fanatics

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Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

“dissociation is always better than desperation.”

rayne fisher-quann • The cult of the dissociative pout

Her life was not, after all, as perfect as it appeared. Real lives seldom are, even if the surface has a pretty sheen.

Sarah B. Breathnach • Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort & Joy

fantasies can offer us a portal into what engages us, without the need to pathologize, change, or shame what arouses us.

Cyndi Darnell • Sex When You Don't Feel Like It

There are a lot of words when it comes to identifying what exactly about a piece of art made you feel seen, heard, known. They’re all slightly different. Authentic is what came naturally. Real is early morning lighting where you can see all of your pores. Vulnerable is a little too close to the bone for the person putting it out, sink or swim, reve... See more

Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions — predigested books and ideas, weekend encounters guaranteed to change your life, taking “gut” courses instead of ones you know will challenge you, bluffing at school and life instead of doing solid work, marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting preg

Maria Popova • Adrienne Rich on Why an Education Is Something You Claim, Not Something You Get

“I spent a lot of my life lying to get what I thought I wanted. Here’s what I found out: if I live in the truth, I’ll always come out okay. Because only the truth has legs. At the end of the day, it’s the only thing left standing.”