It wasn’t so simple at age 18, writes Caitlin Moran.

Sometimes I feel a knife floating above my right shoulder. I know it’s not real, but I want to know what it means.

In this excerpt from her new memoir, The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy recounts her fearless mother’s life and death.

It’s not the abs. It’s the friendship.

What was it about the baby that was so time-consuming, so life-consuming?

Working in her store felt like being invited into a dreamed-up world.

My style turned out to be not so different from hers.

“You have to be brave.”

“I craved peach gummy candies from the gas station, and ate them by the bagful.”

“Sunday best” means more than the Met Gala to me.

“I was hugely with child — with children — and the dome of my belly measured weeks ahead of a singleton pregnancy.”

But recently, I got pregnant.

“Why would you do that to your body?” “That’s not going to look good at 70.” These are the things strange men say to tattooed women.

In this essay from her new book Look Alive Out There, Sloane Crosley reckons with what the future holds.

“I was really into it — the little hint of danger was exciting. That’s when I heard the front door open.”

“Because my work is legal, if anything goes wrong, the police have to help.”

About Chloe Kim, Dude Perfect, Tiger Parents, and our own family.

I didn’t know what to expect. What I found made me want more.

How much about violence do I want him to understand?

The whitener really worked, but at what cost?