Become a parent. Lose your autonomy, but gain the wondrous superpower of The Magic Kiss that instantly dries tears and makes the pain of boo-boos disappear.

As women of the western world, we see our sisters in other lands being raped, maimed and even executed simply for trying to exercise the most basic freedoms, such as taking a bus alone or...

I can be totally feminine and totally feminist. The two are not mutually exclusive.

It’s only young people who make giant, life-altering decisions based on what other people might think, and it’s because they don’t see their own death looming. Their fear is, “Will my family, friends and lovers...

The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don’t have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you’re not nervous, pretend you’re not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears.