Watch iconic female led travel movies like Eat Pray Love and Thelma & Louise to feel inspired from the comfort of your home

Best Travel Movies With Female Leads

This article may contain affiliate/compensated links. For full information, please see our Disclaimer here. As an avid traveler AND cinephile, I'm constantly on the hunt to find and watch all the best travel movies like it was my job (and often instead of doing my job). That's especially true right now, as we quarantine ourselves at home with less work or outside activities to occupy and entertain us. As a result, I've admittedly been filling…
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This is my story with self defense and being attacked

The Rape Joke by Patricia Lockwood

The rape joke is that you were 19 years old. The rape joke is that he was your boyfriend. The rape joke it wore a goatee. A goatee. Imagine the rape joke looking in the mirror, perfectly reflecting back itself, and grooming itself to look more like a rape joke. “Ahhhh,” it thinks. “Yes. A goatee.” No offense. The rape joke is that he was seven years older. The rape joke is that you had known him for years,…
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My New Year’s Realizations

My New Year’s Realizations

We did it! We made it through another year full of uncertainty and un-safety. And now we have a chance to reflect, reassess, and resolve to make some new changes and take some new chances in the new year. I'm determined to make 2022 an even better, brighter, braver year. Who’s with me? Let’s start 2022 on our own terms! Make big travel plans. Set some ambitious New Year’s Resolutions. Or as I like to…
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Shop travel themed home decor on Amazon for some travel inspiration while you're stuck at home

Travel Home Decor

This article may contain affiliate/compensated links. For full information, please see our Disclaimer here. Stuck at home with the travel bug? Or any other kind of bug? Why not embrace the staycation and add some travel home decor. You can feel a million miles away in the destination of your dreams, wherever your heart desires, without actually going anywhere. Here are my top 16 travel home decor ideas to give your home a travel-inspired makeover…
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Get your Jane Austen quotes mug on Amazon for travel inspiration

Jane Austen Travel Quotes

This article may contain affiliate/compensated links. For full information, please see our Disclaimer here. Where my fellow Janeites at? Jane Austen was truly one of history's OG Tough Cookies. She wrote the book (several actually) on strong, independent female characters who aren't afraid to travel and forge their own path. So in honor of her, I thought I'd compile some of my favorite Jane Austen quotes from her most iconic and inspiring heroines in the…
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Read about Rebecca Ahn's unconventional and nomadic career path of frequent changes on Tough Cookie Travel

Happy New Year… And New You!

The time has come, my fellow Tough Cookies! On this day of reflection and rebirth from what has passed into what is to come, we here at Tough Cookie Says want to wish you something bigger and bad-ass-er than just a Happy New Year… We wish you a Happy New You! After all, that’s what this time of year is all about. When the clock strikes 12midnight tonight, we will all be launched into the next phase…
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Why We Need More Strong Female Film Roles

Why We Need More Strong Female Film Roles

In today's growing global political climate and all the recent reports surfacing around sexual harassment, particularly in the entertainment industry, it's more important than ever that we see strong women in strong positions in our media, movies, and shows. As Gal Gadot said recently in an episode of Variety‘s “Actors on Actors” series, “there cannot be women empowerment if women don’t have this visual in their subconsciousness, and if men don’t have it either. It’s important…
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Hillary Clinton

Women’s Rights are Human Rights are Hillary’s Rights

However you voted in the 2016 US Presidential Election, you gotta hand it to Hillary Rodham Clinton for being the first woman to make such a huge play for the office on behalf of a major political party.. and very nearly succeed. Even though she didn't win (which some of us maintain was due to a ridiculous technicality), she still broke some serious glass ceilings and old molds for women and girls the whole nation…
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A Real Live Beauty: Emma Watson and the Beast

A Real Live Beauty: Emma Watson and the Beast

Disney is planning a live-action musical version of their classic tale “Beauty and the Beast”. And it’s bound to be quite a beauty of a film, given who they’ve cast to lead the show as the brave and beautiful brunette bookworm. She’s already made quite a name for herself playing a similarly stubborn bookworm. Guess who it is yet? That’s right! Emma Watson! Bill Condon (“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn”) will be directing the film. But no…
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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Melissa Benoist from Glee!

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Melissa Benoist from Glee!

CBS is throwing their hat into the superhero ring, with their own hourlong drama TV show centered around none other than SuperGirl herself – one of the only iconic female superhero characters that had yet to be tapped for her own show… until now. Joining forces with Warner Bros, CBS finally has the writing and producing power to get their pilot off the ground. And now they have their leading lady too. “Glee” alum Melissa Benoist has…
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Michelle Maclaren to direct the new Wonder Woman film

A Wonder Woman To Direct Wonder Woman. No Wonder!

*UPDATE: After MacLaren's departure from the Wonder Woman film due to "creative differences," Warner Bros. could have chosen anyone to take over the helm. Anyone. And it wouldn't have surprised anyone if they'd chosen a man. But they DIDN'T! To our very pleasant surprise, Warner Bros. took another big leap forward and chose the equally Tough Cookie Patty Jenkins to take the reins. And boy are we glad she did! Wonderful news! Acclaimed bad-ass television…
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Tough Cookie Scarlett Johansson stars as the Black Widow in her own movie, finally!

You Go ScarJo! The Star of the New “Ghost In The Shell” Reboot

My favorite new female action star has some exciting news! She’s going to be headlining yet another iconic action story, this time from the land of Japanese anime. If you aren’t already familiar with anime, and are curious to check it out, you can’t go wrong with Ghost In The Shell. And our beloved Scarlett Johansson is set to star as covert ops Major Motoko Kusanagi (or Monique Kutcher or whatever they plan to rename her), squad leader of…
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