Words matter. These are the best Faith Salie Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Donald Trump, who surely has lots of high-stakes issues on which to focus, is consumed with the appearance of women.
If you want to become a mother, you can. I promise. It may not happen the way you think, but it’s possible. It just takes a combination of a little planning and a lot of living your life.
I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack – a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance – of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child.
I’m writing a book, and there’s not even space for a desk in our home. So I spent my hard-earned book money and rented the small apartment downstairs from us.
Having grown up Catholic, my prayers were scripted – memorized and deployed in church and before bed. As a young adult, I veered off script and talked to God more plainly. And by ‘talked to,’ I mean that I basically asked for things to turn out the way I wanted them to.
I am an approval junkie.
Am I an elitist because I like wine?
It was my husband who had to open all the baby shower gifts which were haunting me in their candy-colored gift wrap – thank you notes demanding to be written.
If you don’t know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you’re probably a guy.
Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, ‘Hi, Sweetpea.’ Not ‘Buddy’ or ‘Little Man.’ Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.
I’ll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.
No longer is a geek identifiable by a pale complexion, black-rimmed glasses, a bowling shirt that says ‘Nerd World Order.’ No, geeks are everywhere. And they’re cool!
This is America; our icons are complicated.
The custom of clasping hands is thought to date back thousands of years, as proof of not holding any weapons.
Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.
Making fun of people’s looks is something that children do – mean children – and, in fact, linguists have determined that Trump actually speaks like a 3rd grader.
A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is a dangerous one indeed.
I have no problem being full-term pregnant and do not understand women who say, ‘I can’t wait to get this baby out of me!’
We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone trees.
I’m an old mom of a young baby, and every moment matters.
My first husband and I never came close to having kids.
I know how much sleep I need, how much time on the elliptical I need, and how much chocolate that buys me.
The fact that oversharing exists at all as a noteworthy notion is a relief, because I’m afraid that our younger generations could grow up having no idea what it even means to overshare.
Did you know you’re supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ twice?
Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being ‘damaging to the soul.’
Shaking hands is a pretty good way to get yourself sick, not necessarily with Ebola, but with a million other germs that can cause colds and flu.
Wanting to be loved and appreciated connects us all.
Manspread, mansplaining, manterrupting – all of it, whether conscious or not, diminishes women’s voices, minds, and bodies.
As a mother, I don’t want any girl twerking near my kid at a bat mitzvah.
When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent – anyone over the age of 20, it seemed – ‘Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so.’
If I could have had my baby sooner, I would have, simply to spend more years with him.
I once accidentally ‘replied all’ and sent an email complaining about my then-boyfriend to a bunch of strangers. It was meant for my friend who was a bride, but I ended up addressing her entire wedding party. Her marriage lasted; my relationship didn’t.
I’m squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.
I think there’s something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don’t care about anyone’s approval.
Women all over this great land are creating spaces just for themselves, most often out of sheds in their backyards. They’re fantasy cottages, bespoke bungalows, ‘mama maisons,’ if you will, for mothers and wives who need a sanctuary – a haven where they can do anything, or nothing.
‘Man cave’ seems retrograde, but ‘she shed’ seems progressive. Or maybe it’s just a place for me to eat embarrassing amounts of chocolate in private.
Boys have always known they could do anything; all they had to do was look around at their presidents, religious leaders, professional athletes, at the statues that stand erect in big cities and small. Girls have always known they were allowed to feel anything – except anger.
Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we’re trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because – to put it scientifically – our brains hold a lot of ‘stuff.’
Social media provides a constant platform on which to feature what we deem beautiful, meaningful, and worthy.
Whenever I told women – friends or acquaintances – that I had to go to divorce court, they’d invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, ‘What are you going to wear?’ It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.
Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know… and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.
I don’t mean to brag, but my water filter curates tap water, offering moi the finest combination of H, 2, and O available.
Divorce court seemed to inspire in my girlfriends 1940s-era fashion fantasies, not only for me, but for themselves.
If you’re ever bcc’d, do not go near ‘reply all.’ ‘Bcc’ is ‘blind carbon copy.’ It means you’re a fly on the wall, dude! If you hit reply all, it’s beyond bad etiquette to out the person who gave you the superpower of invisibility. It’s like screaming, ‘I’m a spy!’
Whether you plan to labor with an epidural or the Pitocin Fairy pins you down or you end up having an emergency C-section, there are still choices you can make throughout your entire birth experience that allow you to feel some control over what is probably the most dramatic day of your life.
I remember my mom sitting at our kitchen table, paying bills with a small smile. She’d sigh and say, ‘I’m so blessed to be able to pay these.’ She knew it was about what you have.
It’s fitting that an insult largely aimed at youth has made children of those who use it. ‘Snowflake’ reminds us how much we need climate change… in politics.
The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.
Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you’re a woman, you’ll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You’ll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.
Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?
Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who’s writing about herself is not just saying, ‘Here’s what happened,’ and opening up her diary. There needs to be consideration of other people’s feelings.
I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?
Despite amazing advances in fertility to help older women get pregnant, the complications, increased chances of autism, and chromosomal abnormalities are significant considerations.
If you grasp the bathroom door handle to exit without using a paper towel, you’re right back where you started, with who-knows-whose germs on your hands.
Sometimes art helps illuminate science.
To my knowledge, there are, pretty much, two ways to be interesting: One is to actually do interesting things, achieve the remarkable. The other way to be interesting is to be interested, curious about the world and about other people – not relentlessly revelatory about yourself.
Wildfires can leave the land with burn scars that last for years.
Well-done eyelash extensions make you look beautiful and doe-eyed without a lick of makeup.
On a meaningful day, everything you wear can have meaning. It becomes what I wore That Day, whether that day is a beginning or an end.
Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs and hopes of his people.
