Emma McLaughlin

A Hallmark card with paragraphs about my beauty written by a stranger is vaguely depressing. ”

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time. ”

Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe. ”

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles. ”