Joni Edelman

Are the advances worth the trade-offs? You be the judge.

It doesn’t get any more difficult to insult ourselves, regardless of how old we are. It would be ideal if it got easier to respect ourselves, but it generally doesn’t do that either. Every year you age, and every year the aging you looks at the you of the years before and thinks, I can’t believe I thought I was fat/ugly/etc.

What to really expect when you're expecting.

They will 

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.

“I don’t even know what to say, Joni. Your baby isn’t alive.”

"She has created an important space on the internet and in the real world, a space that women and girls are free to take up however they please."

I was told that feminism is man hate. That abortion is murder. And then I thought, "What am I doing here?"

Chronic stress secretes a hormonal cocktail that wreaks havoc on that amazing body you have. Here's how you can chill your adrenals and reduce stress.