Joni Edelman

A weekly trip to Walmart would end in tears — first theirs, then mine. Them pining in the toy aisle. Me saying no. Over and over. It wasn’t so much that I wanted to buy my kids whatever they wanted, it was that I couldn’t.

Oh hey remember that time in 1804 when Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had an actual duel, with actual guns and Burr shot Hamilton and Hamilton did not shoot Burr. And then the next day Hamilton died.

Psychiatric illness is still stigmatized. And that’s hard when you have a psychiatric illness.

When it comes to your physique, your mind can actually work against you.

How do I raise a boy to love and respect all women regardless of size in a world where he is bombarded with images of what is attractive?

Good god, where will I ever find someone who will love me in such a pitiful condition?

"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."

Look, I'm not saying McDonald's did this themselves, I'm just saying, a lot of the people that work there probably agree.

It's #STDAwareness week here at Ravishly. We're kicking it off with this handy chart!

Suffering is America’s favorite thing to do. We starve ourselves to lose weight, and we’re a success story. We don’t sleep, and we’re just getting SO MUCH DONE. We do a thousand things a day and involve our kids in a thousand activities, because somehow, in some perverted way, that makes us successful.