Research says people use smell to find mates and personal experience show women are better at it

"Since when is marriage a path to liberation?"

A young man’s heartbreak lands softly, though reluctantly into the nest of friendship that he has built with his favourite sibling

Even though I have a pitifully large collection of rejections, blunders and heartbreaks, I’m willing to try again and again.

"I should have said it out plainly on that lunch break: she’s actually fucking beautiful, you numbnuts."

Song ‘Princes Familiar’ gives an example of the importance of the first relationship some women have been privileged to have: our first love.

"Perhaps a feminist deity gave birth to feminist sons so they could raise the sort of men they would have wanted to be surrounded by."

"As a teen I worried about my dimpled thighs, but then I had to deal with mental and physical illness."

The world can be a hate-filled place but love, the essence of our being, makes it beautiful