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Life Can Women And Women Be Friends?
What does the expression “female friendship” evoke for you? Intense childhood or adolescent bonds? Lifelong connections among women, outlasting romantic relationships (of any sexual orientation)? Or does “female” seem gratuitous? Male friendship tends to just go by “friendship.” (If nothing else, “female friendship” produces far more Google results.) In the Atlantic, Megan Garber reviews a…
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Life An Ode to Female Friendships, from Ruth to Donna Brazile
Female friendship is having a moment in the spotlight with two hot books: the recently published “Feminist Fight Club” and “Colored Girls,” a work in progress. “Colored Girls,” co-authored by Donna Brazile; Minyon Moore, powerhouse lawyer and Clinton operative; Leah Daughtry, director of the Democratic Convention’s podium operations; Yolanda Caraway, a public relations and affairs…
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Life What’s the Point of Girlfriends?
I think it’s important, before going any further, to level with you about what I did last weekend. I watched “Bridezillas.” A lot. If you’re not familiar with this show (and if you’re not, I don’t suggest rushing about trying to remedy that), it’s marketed as a program about spoiled, bitchy, selfish, insane women who…
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