I just am a person who loves houses. In a way, it's dovetailed into one of the themes of The Unspeakable: Why… — Meghan Daum Accepting 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… — Meghan Daum Answers 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… — Meghan Daum Actors Copy Share Image
I grew up in a town where there were no adults over forty who weren't somebody's parents. It was, unfortunately, the kind… — Meghan Daum Adults Copy Share Image
No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that… — Meghan Daum Air Copy Share Image
Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the… — Meghan Daum Big world Copy Share Image
We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized. There's a whole industry around… — Meghan Daum Bonding Copy Share Image
I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is… — Meghan Daum Acceptable 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… — Meghan Daum Broke Copy Share Image
I had written a lot about my dog dying before. I wrote a newspaper column about it and it turned out to… — Meghan Daum Culture Copy Share Image
“Analyzing data from 79 men and women who wore inconspicuous devices that recorded some of their conversations over the course of four… — Meghan Daum Closeness Copy Share Image
What I think is important about essayists, about the essay as opposed to a lot of personal writing is that the material… — Meghan Daum Culture Copy Share Image
For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of… — Meghan Daum Books Copy Share Image
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… — Meghan Daum Deadline Copy Share Image
There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the… — Meghan Daum Calling 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… — Meghan Daum Bears Copy Share Image
I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young… — Meghan Daum Die young 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… — Meghan Daum Different Copy Share Image
New York is such a special place. It's really intense for people because they live here when they're young. On top of… — Meghan Daum Absorbing 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… — Meghan Daum Apartment Copy Share Image
As soon as I accepted that I am this kind of writer and I happen to live here, and stopped going to… — Meghan Daum Accepted Copy Share Image
And why the hell should you do a really hard, important job that you don't want to do? That has extremely high… — Meghan Daum Blow Copy Share Image
There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And… — Meghan Daum Asking Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in tht notion of what is authentic and how we define that and why our culture imposes certain… — Meghan Daum Authentic Copy Share Image
Being in the entertainment industry in L.A. is the equivalent to being in the publishing industry in New York. You don't ever… — Meghan Daum Entertainment Copy Share Image
What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a… — Meghan Daum Class Copy Share Image
We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized. — Meghan Daum Mother Copy Share Image
“Also, I was coming up on my five year anniversary of owning the house, and if there's anything I've learned in five… — Meghan Daum Five years Copy Share Image
“What's more, a lot of people who harbor an intolerance for complexity see it not as a character flaw but a cognitive… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What… — Meghan Daum Authority Copy Share Image
In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you… — Meghan Daum Afraid Copy Share Image
People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways… — Meghan Daum Brain Copy Share Image
I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in… — Meghan Daum Business Copy Share Image
I started my professional career before the blogosphere existed in any sort of meaningful way. I think that my approach as a… — Meghan Daum Approach Copy Share Image
The thing about living in a place like Nebraska is there aren't that many people, so your circle of acquaintances is going… — Meghan Daum Acquaintance 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]…” quote by Meghan Daum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/107/meghan-daum-18332_bears_i-feel-that-i-m-an-essayist-and-that-my_1054935.jpg)
