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As soon as I opened the magazine a few weeks ago, I knew it would end in tears. The headline was “The Big Easy” and it was a story about one woman’s breezy... [read more]
Sorry is not always the hardest word. For some of us, it slips constantly out of our mouths. But why? Lorraine Candy is Editor-in-Chief of fashion magazine Elle... [read more]
To me, feminism has always meant the right to choose what you want to do with your life. I know that many women who choose to stay at home with their children... [read more]
I bumped into a girlfriend this morning and she was incensed about something she'd read yesterday. It was in the same magazine in which my column appears and in... [read more]
When I was pregnant with my third child, I had some moments of extreme guilt. There were women around me , some close friends, who were struggling to have a baby... [read more]
I've used the morning-after pill several times in my life when my contraception has failed. But not since the happy day it became available over the counter... [read more]
Do you ever wish you had a wife? I do. A wife would be nice. A proper one. Not like the kind of wife I am. Anyway, this isn't a post about wives it's a post about... [read more]
Given it's the Federal Election and all, this story will probably be buried somewhere down the back of the newspaper. It probably won't get a run on the TV news... [read more]
It's been brought to my attention by some rather anguished comments in some of Mamamia's recent posts about parenthood here, here and here, that we're frightening... [read more]
Last year I took part in a forum at The Garvan Institute about the ethics of IVF. One of the questions that came up was about using IVF to select the gender of your... [read more]