Everything good and noble that humans have ever thought or felt throughout history... including “We hold these truths to be self-evident” and “I have a dream”... is really about us gals getting our beach bodies back.

My sister posted this quote from the Talmud recently:

Also every moment I spend suffering, someone else is being happy. Sometimes in the next room.

Or enhanced toddlers fucking clones (the toddlers might mature much earlier, so should the age of consent be changed, but only for the enhanced? If they fuck two clones made from the same person, is that considered having a single partner or multiple partners? ). Yes, stop now.

But there are people who are just becoming adults and I think they have a right to be proud. My 19-year-old niece has had a couple of those moments, and I was proud of her too. It’s a whole new world for her. For my 51-year-old self, it would not make so much sense to be proud that I sent a letter for an internship…

“Wiped myself correctly: #adulting.”

Here’s the thing: mental illness is at an all-time high in the U.S. Parents work multiple jobs and don’t have time to teach their kids normal life skills. Or they’re too drunk or stoned. Or they just vanished somewhere. Or they never knew how to do that stuff in the first place and so it never got done in our…

That’s a hard one. I will give you five stars for that!

Yes, it’s definitely one of my favorites. I found it years ago prowling the aisles of my university library, picking up books at random instead of going to class. I love books that truly take you into a different time and place, and that one truly does.

Fatima grew up in a domestic harem—a household with her family and her uncles’ families. There were quarters for each nuclear family, an apartment for the brothers’ mother, and a locked gate with a guard to keep the women from leaving without permission. Her father adored her mother, and did what he could to make her…

At least they’re holding him without bail. That’s different than usual. Would have been better if it hadn’t taken them a year to get to that, though. Imagine how quickly it would have gone if the roles were reversed.

Until I was well into my forties I suffered from pretty bad acne (Spironalactone is the miracle drug that cleared me up). I was talking to my mother about my fear that if I got married, I would have to be seen without makeup by my husband, and he would be horrified by my true appearance. My mother, trying to be nice,*…

The terrorists were trying to kill them as well as their fans, so it’s not exactly a shallow sentiment; they earned it.

Hope you don’t break up if you don’t want to. But just to have in your back pocket, here are some inspirational quotes about starting over and stuff:

But it isn’t just a matter of someone getting to feel their own emotions. Half the time when I am doing this kind of “emotional work,” I can’t feel my own feelings; I am required not to because I am supporting/listening to the emotions of someone else. The fact that so often women are expected to be nurturing and…

What’s odd about it is that even the woman posting that clearly really believes that a woman’s body belongs to the Internet.

But if only the ultra-rich were still alive, there would be no one to serve them. The armies of hairdressers, plastic surgeons, plumbers, preschool teachers, yoga instructors, auto mechanics, nannies, housekeepers, pilots, personal shoppers, and gardeners would be gone. I think the rich folks would die off pretty…

Heh heh, I thought you were going to say “owns a bank.”

Friends should be supportive of decisions you’ve made carefully that you believe are working for you. Or, if not supportive because they don’t agree, then at least neutral/silent. If it were me I would never talk to that person again about my relationship, and if he asked I would just say something very general like,…

Firin’ dung?