Faith Salie

Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs…

— Faith Salie

The custom of clasping hands is thought to date back thousands of years, as proof of not holding any weapons.

— Faith Salie

Despite amazing advances in fertility to help older women get pregnant, the complications, increased chances of autism, and chromosomal abnormalities are significant…

— Faith Salie

Real love is more than a one-time, seemingly iron-clad pledge that we will never be apart. If you're over 20, you've probably…

— Faith Salie

The fact that oversharing exists at all as a noteworthy notion is a relief, because I'm afraid that our younger generations could…

— Faith Salie

Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more…

— Faith Salie

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

— Faith Salie

Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it…

— Faith Salie

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

— Faith Salie

I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time.…

— Faith Salie

I know how much sleep I need, how much time on the elliptical I need, and how much chocolate that buys me.

— Faith Salie

Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.

— Faith Salie

I am an approval junkie.

— Faith Salie

Wanting to be loved and appreciated connects us all.

— Faith Salie

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

— Faith Salie

The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.

— Faith Salie

Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a…

— Faith Salie

I spent my late twenties and all of my thirties figuring out what I was supposed to be doing and where my…

— Faith Salie

A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is…

— Faith Salie

Women all over this great land are creating spaces just for themselves, most often out of sheds in their backyards. They're fantasy…

— Faith Salie

Getting a pedicure seems to be a standard pre-birth ritual, presumably because it is relaxing and makes you feel pretty even though…

— Faith Salie

The desperate hunger our president has for approbation has led him to such lengths as claiming that God stopped the rain during…

— Faith Salie

Manspread, mansplaining, manterrupting - all of it, whether conscious or not, diminishes women's voices, minds, and bodies.

— Faith Salie

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

— Faith Salie

Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary.…

— Faith Salie