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on celibacy, solo sex and quitting dating because, "why bother."
is dating even worth it? let's discuss.
 • Rebecca Woolf
"an insecure man will punish you for loving him"
on Nicole Kidman, the infantilization of boyfriends and marrying men who will grow to hate you for being out of their league
 • Rebecca Woolf
when "good girls" are "bad girls" or why I will always root for a woman's pleasure over her fidelity to the men who can't give it to her
On Babygirl, desire, eroticism and pursuing middle age as both "Madonna" and "Whore"
 • Rebecca Woolf
How to Host a 50th Birthday Party for Your Dead Husband with Whom you Have a Complicated Relationship
my relationship with my late husband is always going to be complicated which is why I'll never stop celebrating him and everything else that is also…
 • Rebecca Woolf
to Stay or Leave
scenes from a done marriage and the aftermath #howIleft
 • Rebecca Woolf
year of the snake
'honor your hunger and feed yourself' and tell adam he can watch
 • Rebecca Woolf
1. young men have always been turned on by older women 2. the patriarchy has always benefited from convincing 40+ women we're invisible 3…
men in their 20s and 30s are dating more women in their 40s and 50s (and 60+) because there is nothing hotter than a woman who doesn't need to be…
 • Rebecca Woolf
when you know better but do it anyway
the only feeling lonelier than being in a room with someone you love and aren't supposed to, are the days spent afterward, knowing how bad you want to…
 • Rebecca Woolf
On Dying for Sex, living for female horniness and the impossibility of healing a man's pain with a woman's hope
because paradigms aren't going to shift themselves
 • Rebecca Woolf
in which I attempt the impossibility of articulating the language of my cells
I am standing in the kitchen.
 • Rebecca Woolf
creative women are becoming increasingly dangerous to men who have historically gotten away with being shitty
on Lily Allen, David Harbour, and "Vogue World" as the perfect distraction for Hollywood's blatant muzzling of women's voices and our stories.
 • Rebecca Woolf
refuse feedback (when you need to) and it will set you free
in defense of an occasionally closed comment section, paywalling the personal and the difference between resilience and bravery, unlikability and hate.
 • Rebecca Woolf
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