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Index
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: There Are 52 Essays in This Book but Please Read This Part First
1. Real Artists Have Day Jobs
2. How to Read a Book
3. Everything Is Intersectional
4. It Gets Better, Mostly
5. Do It Anyway
6. Put Your Clutter in Purgatory
7. When You Don’t Know What to Do, Ask a Successful Woman
8. You Can Do Magic
9. Feel All the Feelings
10. There Will Be Shit Days
11. Elect Your Own Executive Board
12. Take Care of Your Teeth
13. Stop Apologizing for Everything
14. Radical Overconfidence
15. Join the Fancy Club at the Airport
16. When You Can’t Figure Something Out, Put Yourself in Water
17. Take the Compliment
18. Go Fuck Yourself (No, Really! Masturbation Is Important)
19. Wear a Weird Hat
20. Listen
21. The Power of Being a Dork
22. Everything’s Not Alright (and That’s Alright)
23. Life Is Too Short for Shitty Friends
24. Self-Care for Women in Comedy
25. Prioritize Sleep
26. Sleep Naked
27. Ask Questions
28. Surprise! You Don’t Have to Love Your Family
29. Breathe
30. Give It Away Now
31. Abuse Is Fucking Complicated
32. Make Art Like a Little Kid
33. Bridge the Gaps in Your Pop Cultural Education
34. When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them
35. Ask for Exactly What You Want
36. Don’t Buy Into the Marriage Myth
37. Tell Your Partner What You Like in Bed
38. Gratitude Is Underrated
39. Write Fan Letters
40. Acknowledge That Having a Kid Doesn’t Make You an Adult
41. A Vagina Is Not a Time Machine
42. Always Say Hello to Older People, Because They Are Invisible
43. Identify a Personal Prejudice and Educate It into Nonexistence
44. Let an Animal Adopt You
45. Walk Your Way to a Solution
46. It’s Always Time to Play
47. Realize Your Dress Size Doesn’t Matter
48. The Darkness Is Where the Good Stuff Starts
49. Your Normal Is Not Everybody Else’s Normal
50. This Too Shall Pass
51. Always Celebrate Rainbows
52. Look in the Mirror and Say “I Love You”
Acknowledgments
Also by Sara Benincasa
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