Faith Salie

I am an approval junkie.

— Faith Salie

Am I an elitist because I like wine?

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This is America; our icons are complicated.

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Sometimes art helps illuminate science.

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As a mother, I don't want any girl twerking near my kid at a bat mitzvah.

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Wanting to be loved and appreciated connects us all.

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I'm an old mom of a young baby, and every moment matters.

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Most of my best friends had children in their early 40s.

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

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If I could have had my baby sooner, I would have, simply to spend more years with him.

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Wildfires can leave the land with burn scars that last for years.

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The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.

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I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.

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

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

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We all think Al Gore invented email so we could save time and save paper, to save trees. And that includes phone…

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On a meaningful day, everything you wear can have meaning. It becomes what I wore That Day, whether that day is a…

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If you don't know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you're probably a guy.

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Making fun of people's looks is something that children do - mean children - and, in fact, linguists have determined that Trump…

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Not that I'm any good at it, but the beauty of meditation is that it liberates us from our own thoughts.

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To my knowledge, there are, pretty much, two ways to be interesting: One is to actually do interesting things, achieve the remarkable.…

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Boys have always known they could do anything; all they had to do was look around at their presidents, religious leaders, professional…

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Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency.…

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I once accidentally 'replied all' and sent an email complaining about my then-boyfriend to a bunch of strangers. It was meant for…

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Mothers of all ages delight in their children, but I don't know that, if I were younger, I would feel as acutely,…

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

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Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi,…

— 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

Well-done eyelash extensions make you look beautiful and doe-eyed without a lick of makeup.

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I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

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I asked God for a healthy baby. An answer arrived in my daughter.

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Snowflakery is simply being human, which makes it a pretty flakey insult.

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I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

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My first husband and I never came close to having kids.

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I tell my kids all the time that I'm so lucky they chose me to be their mom.

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Nothing ages you more immediately than being called 'Mrs.'

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

— Faith Salie

It's beyond TMI - oversharing is not just too much information; it's incessant sharing of non-information - breaking news about your gluten-free…

— 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

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

— Faith Salie