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My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely…

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Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out…
Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being…
Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool,…
The cultural insistence that parenting is the 'most important' job in the world is a smart way to satiate unappreciated women without…
There were a WHOLE LOTTA us not having sex at Harvard . . . but none of us thought that that was…
Yes, the more successful you are—or the stronger, the more opinionated—the less you will be generally liked. All of a sudden people…
It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether…
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means…
Men in their hearts hate women. It doesn’t matter how much we love them. They hate us”
Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don’t love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a…
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.
You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal — it just feels stifling.

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When I go home to Pennsylvania, my cousins who live in small towns and are twenty-three with kids are like 'Krysten, when… — Krysten Ritter
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Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating. — Thora Hird
It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and… — Paula Deen
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24 — Rachael Leigh Cook
I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15,… — Linda Evans
I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance. — Gloria Swanson
Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity… — Jenny Han
I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things… — Fred Couples
I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I… — Jen Kirkman

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