Every female has a natural power of abundance, good luck, and prosperity, but she has to decide to concentrate on it. If a woman provokes the Divine, there will be prosperity. Her discipline guarantees it
- Yogi Bhajan

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Carolina's BytchThe Baffling Events That Single Women Everywhere Have To Endure

I had an awesome conversation last night with the amazing and talented Kim.  I've had a couple rough days, partly due to my own inner demons, partly due some incredibly hurtful things that were said to me.  After the conversation, I was able to shake that last bit of crabbiness that was still lingering around.

Heather Wood SAVED BY THE SUMMER BELL

Well, we're not having a summer election after all. Our barbecues and patio gatherings are safe from annoying interruptions by party canvassers and political campaign calls. More importantly, we now have more time to tackle an on-going problem – the lack of female representation in Parliament.

Pixie Says Ask the Japanese government to ban video-game rape simulators pt. 2

So my previous post about the Equality Now campaign to ban rape-simulator video games in Japan provoked some discussion on Facebook. One of my friends countered that fantasy is a space that should not be policed: as a feminist, I agree with him, which got me thinking that...

Romy Shiller POP goes the TEEN

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.  ~ Fran Lebowitz

Simply skimming. Images of youth in popular culture. Not Toddlers and Tiaras (2009) about toddler beauty pageants, which makes me sick or the 20-something hot bods in the new Star Trek (2009), I am such a Cougar - "an older woman who sexually pursues men at least eight years her junior."(Wikipedia)  I am discussing teenagers and tweens - "the stage between middle childhood and adolescence in human development, generally in the age range of 10 to 12 years of age." (Wikipedia).

Romy Shiller LETTER TO THE EDITOR:  MS. MAGAZINE FEATURING BARACK OBAMA ON THE COVER OF Issue: WINTER 2009

According to the book Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts it in a Box by the head of women's studies at South-Carolina U., Merri Lisa Johnson, I'm a third wave feminist.

Viki Ackland End of the Road

I am not really a girly girl. Like a lot of my friends and peers I am independent, self assured and have a rather high opinion of my worth. I have a clear idea of what I deserve, what I want, and what I will not tolerate, and the only rare time my Libra self gets out of balance is when one of those equations are missing.