Alcoholism Is The Disease Of More.

American Companies Spend More Than $200 Billion Each Year Hacking Women's Bodies Into Bits And Pieces, Urging Comparisons Between Self And Other, Linking Value To Air-brushed Ideals, And As The Girls In My Seventh-grade Class Graduated To High School And Beyond, The Imagery Around Us Would Only Grow More Specific, More Pummeling, More Insidious.

All Dogs Can Be Guide Dogs Of A Sort, Leading Us To Places We Didn't Even Know We Needed Or Wanted To Go.

Cats ... Are Like Four-legged Poster Children For Ocd.

What Is This Drive To Be Thinner, Prettier, Better Dressed, Other? Who Exactly Is This Other And What Does She Look Like Beyond The Jacket She's Wearing Or The Food She's Not Eating? What Might We Be Doing, Thinking, Feeling About If We Didn't Think About Body Image, Ever?

Was He Smart Enough? Introspective Enough? Was It Just Enough To Love Him, Or Should I Attach Myself To Someone Who Seemed Farther Ahead Of Me, Someone Smarter And More Ambitious Than Me, Who'd Be Sure To Carry Me Along Into The Version Of Adulthood I Thought I Should Be Striving For?