Tweet “I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792 It’s International Women’s Day today, and this year there’s…
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Tweet For most of us who adore Bridget Jones – the books and the films – we fell in love with Mark Darcy at the same time as Bridget herself. When he floors her with…
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Tweet On Friday night I was reading an interview in the Evening Standard; it was well written, interesting, but one phrase made me want to give up reading the whole thing. The writer said…
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Tweet It’s 100 years today since Emily Davison threw herself in front of the King’s horse and died. She was protesting against the fact that women were not, in 1913, treated as equal citizens.…
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Tweet This weather has caught me a little by surprise, so much so that I’m not… er… ‘prepared’ for it, beauty wise. Basically I need some waxing, mostly on my legs, but that’s not…
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Tweet It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a woman over a certain age (35) who is also a mum and vaguely attractive will at some point get called a ‘MILF’ by teenagers, known to…
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Tweet Has the author Hilary Mantel actually met the Duchess of Cambridge? I suspect she hasn’t. Either way her comments* that Kate is ‘designed by a committee’ with a ‘plastic smile’ are really very…
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Tweet Honestly, I don’t know why I do it to myself, but I read an interview with Louise Mensch in last night’s Standard where she was talking about fashion. ‘If you’re a feminist, you’re…
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Tweet It’s 200 years ago today since Pride and Prejudice was published. This fact makes me feel quite emotional, partly because of my own novel-writing aspirations, but also because Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, and Sense…
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Tweet There was an article in the Fail on Sunday by Dr Ellie Cannon which basically raised the concept that this ad from M&S, which does, to my eyes, show women of all different shapes…