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10 Romantic Things Girls (Actually) Want To Hear

When Harry Met Sally 1. I love you. You’re my best friend and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. [Insert name here] will you grow fat and old with me? Because food is awesome and unrealistic...

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Learning To Trust Yourself Is More Important Than Trusting Others

Like Crazy We all have, or have had, people in our lives we think we know. People that we trust, that we put our faith in. People we’ve invested time and emotion into, who make us feel safe and...

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10 Signs You’re Pretty Comfortable With Who You Are

The Mindy Project 1. I used to think I was pretty confident in myself because I wore basically varying ensembles of the same three things every day. In reality I lacked the self-confidence and bravery...

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A Survival Guide For Women Who Want To Work In Technical Fields

Shutterstock I’ve been working in and around government testing for the last six years. Six years which have solidified three things: I am, without a shadow of a doubt, a feminist and the only one I...

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21 Star Wars Facts In Honor Of ‘May The Fourth Be With You’

For those of you who don’t know — probably because you’re a semi-normal and well-adjusted human being who has better things to do than track unofficial holidays for cult classic sci-fi films — it is...

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5 Ways I Plan To Teach My Daughter About Her Body

Flickr, Danielle Moler Listen, we’re all insecure in some way or another, and I’m definitely no exception. The moment we sashay out of our mother’s wombs in a shower of glitter and rainbows (that’s how...

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Falling In Love With A Spark And A Promise

Derek Key It begins with a spark. A scattered glimpse like the brief recollection of a hazy dream. It’s a world comprised of flashing headlights on the walls of your room as the world slides past in a...

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Rape Doesn’t Make Female Characters More Interesting, Game Of Thrones

After a long love affair with the infamously incomplete series by George R.R. Martin, I was thrilled when HBO made their adaptation. I was also pleasantly surprised by how well they managed to portray...

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What Love Isn’t

Frances Ha Love isn’t the answer. It isn’t going to barrel into your life carrying the antidote to all your past fuckups and lingering insecurities, like a balm to all your wounds. It’s not going to...

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15 Things Chronic Procrastinators Will Understand

Spongebob Squarepants 1. You start writing a piece about procrastination and then sit on it for about a month without a shred of conscious irony. (What? Just me?) 2. You manage to accomplish eight...

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Let’s Stop Romanticizing Jerks

Transformer18 We live in a society that continuously romanticizes the idea of a brooding asshole who secretly possesses an inner kindness or a hidden heart of gold. Like under that gross attitude and...

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10 Things You Get Weirdly Excited About Buying As An Adult

1. Towels. Dudes, there is nothing like a matching set of overpriced fluffy as hell towels that you personally, intentionally, fold and hang artfully in your bathroom. Sometimes I stare at my bathroom...

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10 Tips For Keeping A Meaningful Journal (And Why You Should Start One Now)

rawpixel / Unsplash Every life is a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. It is often a story written and developed by others, drawn out by hands that are not our own with very little input...

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A Rallying Cry To Awkward Introverts In This Polarizing Time

I’m a self-possessed (self-centered, more like) creature. I saw an article recently titled “Why You Can’t Stop Looking at Other People’s Screens,” and I tried to think of an instance when I could...

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The Beautiful Struggle Of Authenticity

What would be the story of you? What would be the linear and clear timeline that somehow shapes us all, but tells us so very, very little about anything at all. Oh, I know the stories I tell to mold...

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Learning To Trust Yourself Is More Important Than Trusting Others

Like Crazy We all have, or have had, people in our lives we think we know. People that we trust, that we put our faith in. People we’ve invested time and emotion into, who make us feel safe and...

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10 Signs You’re Pretty Comfortable With Who You Are

The Mindy Project 1. I used to think I was pretty confident in myself because I wore basically varying ensembles of the same three things every day. In reality I lacked the self-confidence and bravery...

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21 Star Wars Facts In Honor Of ‘May The Fourth Be With You’

For those of you who don’t know — probably because you’re a semi-normal and well-adjusted human being who has better things to do than track unofficial holidays for cult classic sci-fi films — it is...

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10 Romantic Things Girls (Actually) Want To Hear

When Harry Met Sally 1. I love you. You’re my best friend and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. [Insert name here] will you grow fat and old with me? Because food is awesome and unrealistic...

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12 Things That Happen When You Suck At Drinking

Shutterstock 1. I realize I’ve only had a glass and a half of wine so far but yes, I am already half drunk. No, really, please don’t make me drink that…you’re not going to go away until I drink that,...

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