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How Three Generations Of Women And Two Sara(h)s Helped Me Beat Bone Cancer

Young Women Are Going To Crash The Glass And Change The World

Future Female Leaders — Cry, Show Your Battle Scars And Tell Your Own Story

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I Left My Career And Country To Give My Son The Life He Deserved

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Trailblazers

Aletta Jacobs: When They Told Her ‘You Can’t,’ This Gutsy Woman Said ‘Just Watch Me’

Prohibited from attending high school, Aletta Jacobs found a workaround and became the Netherlands' first woman with a medical degree. But her gutsiness didn't end there.

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Health

13 Things You Should Know About Women And Alcohol

"The thing we share deeply in common — palpably so — is the need for a more feminine approach to recovery."

A Stroke At 26, A Toddler At 41

Nina Mitchell suffered a hemorrhagic stroke when she was just 26 years old. Now 41, she's a writer, mother and wife.

How Three Generations Of Women And Two Sara(h)s Helped Me Beat Bone Cancer

I’ve gotten so much praise for being a strong woman, but these Gutsy Broads pushed me, supported me and carried me through what could have otherwise been a very dark time in my life.

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