Good girls go to heaven.
When female presidential candidates are labeled shrill or nasty or damningly, unconscionably persistent (nevertheless!
They said men dont like to read about women, and women dont like women likethiswoman.
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Weve come a long way, but its important to have this vocabulary.
Its dangerous to pretend women dont have anger.
Its also not helpful to the cause to pretend that all these books are great literature.
Gin for breakfast, when youve just lost your job and your man?
Spying on the neighbors because youre too pathologically terrified to leave your own home?
Maybe not the coping mechanisms a therapist would recommend, but fair.
Framing your own husband for your murder, and then an ex-boyfriend, too?
And in the process, maybe, find a better understanding of our own unpretty thoughts.
We have seen it, and now we can celebrate it too.
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