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Tuesday, May 15, 2012 I Thought I'd Never Feel Joy Again -- So I Surrounded Myself With Other People's At 22, Jennifer Gilbert was attacked in the hallway of a New York City apartment building and stabbed multiple times. She survived, told very few people what had happened to her and went on to found her own event planning business, Save The Date, at the age of 24. The company has since done millions of dollars in revenue, and at 29 Gilbert was named Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year. Obama To Female Graduates: 'Take A Seat At The Table' Is This The Worst Rejection Text Ever? WATCH: The Dark Side Of Pinterest Is Hilarious Meet The Misguided Men Of The New 'Bachelorette' BLOG POSTS Marlo Thomas: Fifty Shades of... Buzz! I couldn't get away from it. My girlfriends were talking about it; columnists were writing about it; Saturday Night Live was spoofing it. It was all I heard about. Barbara & Shannon Kelley: Are You ___ Enough? Would a man's choice to embrace his traditional breadwinning role with gusto be marked as an end to progress, or to opt out of parenthood as a harbinger of the downfall of society as we know it? Taylor Trudon: The Only Living Girl in New York Between unfortunate orthodontia and an equally unfortunate obsession with sparkly blue eyeshadow, middle school was rough. But as John Mayer wisely predicted, "Something's better on the other side." The other side is New York. Dr. Peggy Drexler: Female Role Models: the Absent Conversation The great post-feminist irony is that in an age of hard-won female opportunity, media is channeling that opportunity to a place of hyper-sexualized stupidity. It's not who you are -- it's how hot you are. Debra Ollivier: Valerie Trierweiler And Francois Hollande: Why The French Don't Say 'I Do' With the inauguration of Francois Hollande, France will have a new First Lady -- sort of. Valerie Trierweiler is Francois Holland's partner -- a 47 year-old, un-Botoxed but beautiful, twice-divorced working mother of three teenagers who downplays her unmarried status to Hollande.

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