'Limit': A woman's life at full throttle
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People don't run away to find themselves. They take off to lose the things that distract them from being who they really are.
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Sylvia Plath's daughter pleaded from the  heart -- enough is enough.
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For many actresses it is career suicide. But becoming a mother has enabled Kate Winslet to take on roles that would have been beyond her before the birth of her two children, she said yesterday.
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As Margo Channing said  in "All About Eve," fasten your seat belts.
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Francine Prose can't help it. No matter how many books she has written &#151; more than 20 to date &#151; she also has this "parallel self" that needs to take on political and social issues in real life, in real time.
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Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall may have some 50 films under her belt, but she doesn&#39;t go out of her way to catch them in the cinema.
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Travel: Rosemary Mahoney describes the freedom and fears she encountered on her great river adventure
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Sushmita Sen is back with a bang with Main Hoon Na. Her career is back on the tracks.
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Monica Bellucci has a new passion: Motherhood.
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Susanna Sonnenbergâs fiercely observed, fluently written book captures the chaos of her youth as the daughter of a coke addicted mother and a self-absorbed father, neither of whom had the faintest idea of how to be a parent.
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Sometimes it&#39;s hard to be a woman: break through the glass ceiling, and you find yourself on the edge of a glass cliff. Alex Haslam, a social psychologist at Exeter University, told the British Association
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Proof that there still is more to do. On Saturday I got an email from Sylvia saying that a friend of mine had bought her first iPod. It took me a few minutes to figure out that she was talking about herself. Funny, I had never thought about whether she had an iPod or not, but I have been on her case to get a digital camera. So she brought her iPod over, it's one of the new "fatty" nanos with video. It was so funny to see it through her eyes, and even cooler to read her story. I didn't realize that there was a reason she had never gotten an iPod. Sylvia: Sliding into song. I seek out experiences like this. Stones I can turn over that reveal a rich experience, an eye-opener, a bright horizon that doesn't take much time or effort to achieve.
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Over the five years leading up to the 2004 New York City Marathon, Sara Whalen Hess's life has reached staggering extremes.
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"Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence" (Riverhead Books, 207 pages, $24.95) &#151; Rebecca Walker: Writers call it gate-keeping. It's the act of letting readers in to one's personal life, while managing to keep them an arm's length away &#151; just a bit further than absolute honesty would allow.
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In the months before she wound up in the emergency room, Deborah Turner was so exhausted she sometimes had to drag herself up the office stairs clinging to the railing. How, she wondered, had things gotten so bad? Four years earlier she had walked a 26.2-mile marathon. Now she was so short of bre...
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Life & style: Zoe Williams: There are all sorts of inequalities within relationships, but nothing so unfailingly tickles the world as the woman being taller.
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Oscar de la Renta's show was an unequivocal statement about femininity. Diane Von Furstenberg's collection was about a woman "daring to explore and travel."