Today it was announced that the women’s lifestyle and fashion site that started it all, DailyCandy, is going down. And not in a blaze of…
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Humans are social creatures, there’s no doubt about that. But some days, it can feel like if we don’t see another person for the rest…
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“That wouldn’t have happened back home.” “What wouldn’t have?” “That whole day. Our conversation, the quiet location and views. And we didn’t have our phones out!” In…
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Being vulnerable sucks. There are few instances I can think of where putting myself out there, exposing my needs or weaknesses or fears to someone…
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When someone utters the term “Ivy League”, images of Harvard scholars and Yale alumni strolling across a leaf-covered campus in the autumn immediately come to…
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Apparently Nabisco has just wrapped up a two-month run with their “Cookie Dough” Oreo, which seems as grotesquely redundant as obesity-riddled America would presently demand.…
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Hey Girl— I’m writing today mostly to ask: What in the hell are you doing? And: What in the hell is wrong with you? Also:…
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There has been a great amount of praise and criticism for a certain female artist’s recent voice in feminism. I’ll give you a hint—her name…
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The Secret came out when I was 22, just a young and impressionable girl in the throws of a very fickle career in the modeling…
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When Sheryl Sandberg (COO of Facebook) very publicly encouraged women everywhere to Lean In, and published subsequent book, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead, it…
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Sometimes my friends who do things other than write for a living ask me how they can get started writing. I tell to write as…
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In what sounds like a sequel to or knockoff of The Hunger Games, the Invictus Games actually do exist, and they’re not some Romanesque gladiator-type…
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