Faith Salie

“The desperate hunger our president has for approbation has led him to such lengths as claiming that God stopped the rain during his Inauguration. In fact, Mother Nature made sure it rained o...”

“I've spent my life being responsible, building a career, and waiting to find the right partner with whom to start a family.”

“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...”

“Mother's Day is a bittersweet day for many of us. We all have mothers, but some of us have lost them.”

“I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?”

“I'm a snowflake. And so are you. Your children are snowflakes. And so are mine. And those who protest the loudest about not being snowflakes? I can see your six-fold ice crystals from here!...”

“Social media provides a constant platform on which to feature what we deem beautiful, meaningful, and worthy.”

“Mothers of all ages delight in their children, but I don't know that, if I were younger, I would feel as acutely, profoundly, preciously grateful for every smile, squeal, and - yes - diaper...”

“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...”

“I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.”

“I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!”

“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 kno...”

“I've always wanted, notionally, to be a mother. And I was certain I would be, because everyone I know, gay or straight, married or single, rich or not so much, who truly wants to have a chil...”

“Did you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice?”

“Was Hugh Hefner a libertine or a dirty old man? Someone who empowered women or commodified them? The answer is yes!”

“It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-callin...”

“It's beyond TMI - oversharing is not just too much information; it's incessant sharing of non-information - breaking news about your gluten-free diet complete with duck face selfies.”

“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...”

“My husband is a graduate of two Ivy League universities - with a degree in Classics! - and he sounds like a David Mamet character when I hear him on a business call.”

“John Travolta is getting old, despite what his hair is trying to tell us.”