I have a shameful secret. I hate water. There, I said it. There’s something about water that’s just so…blah. The idea of drinking 8 glasses a day seems as impossible as running 8 miles a day. But I know how important it is to stay hydrated. I also know that if I’m not drinking water, […]
That very thought crosses my mind most nights as I lay my anxious body to bed. How am I in my thirties still at the same job that I started in my twenties? How am I still paying for rent for a tiny apartment while my friends are building homes? Speaking of friends how is […]
Dear Ladies, I’m writing this to you because after three years of running Words of Women I’ve finally decided to draw back the curtain and tell you about myself. My name is Lauren Martin and I’m a 27-year-old New Yorker who created Words of Women as an outlet. For three years I’ve been using it […]
Jenny Holzer is an American neo-conceptual artist who belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects. Her contemporaries include Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth, and Louise Lawler. The public dimension is integral to […]
Do you ever feel like you’re going in the opposite direction? Like you’re getting older but less confident and more destructive? It was like something caught at 25 and my life didn’t just plateau, it dropped. I never write. I’m addicted to my phone. I have horrible sleeping patterns. I drink too much. Smoke too […]
Aries “I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.” “If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” “I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can […]
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood. –Alice Miller Addiction is an interesting word. When we hear it we immediately think of drugs and alcohol. We’re not addicts because we’re sober, right? Wrong. We’re […]
Earth, Air, Fire and Water are the four main forces on earth. They are also the four main forces of the Zodiac. Of the 12 astrological signs, each of the four elements is associated with 3 signs of the Zodiac, which are always located exactly 120 degrees away from each other along the ecliptic. Most […]