We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized. There's a whole industry around motherhood and mother-daughter bonds. And certainly when my mother was sick I found there was an incredible expectation… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
The greatest sex toy ever invented may be the telephone. Sometimes there's nothing more erotic than a disembodied voice, no question more tantalizing than… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was becoming provincial in that way that only New Yorkers are. My points of reference were really insular. They were insular in that fantastic New York way, but they didn't go much beyond that. I didn't have any sense… — Meghan Daum Copy Share
I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper. I feel like part of that is because I'm always on deadline. I've been a freelancer my entire career and, at any given time, I… — Meghan Daum Copy Share
I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind of town… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I mean, being provincial is a privilege in a way. Also people in New York think everybody interacts because they all take the subway.… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why do you… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of forming an intimacy with the reader. What I'm saying to the reader is: I'm going to tell you something; I'm going to be generous; I'm going to offer. The confession, on the other hand, is sort of an… — Meghan Daum Copy Share
New York is such a special place. It's really intense for people because they live here when they're young. On top of the energy… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would… — Meghan Daum Copy Share
Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part.… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
