Faith Salie

Divorce court seemed to inspire in my girlfriends 1940s-era fashion fantasies, not only for me, but for themselves. ”

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

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

Scientists have discovered that, as we age, our brains act like computers with fuller and fuller hard drives. So when we're trying to recall a fact or a word or a name, it takes us longer, because - to put it scientifically - our brains hold a lot of 'stuff.' ”

I'm not actually perishing, but I do feel like I die a little every time someone uses 'literally' to mean 'really.' ”

When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so.' ”

I entered my egg-freezing adventure from a feeling of lack - a lack of fertility, of the right partner, of biological time. But this perceived lack actually produced abundance - of options, time, peace of mind, and microscopic chances of a child. ”

Harassment doesn't just happen to 'social observers' and 'comedians' - women who express themselves publicly are reliably verbally attacked online and in person, not for their substance but for their form. ”

By the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was like a rite of passage, along with Doc Martens and Take Back the Night rallies. ”

In case you don't watch much TV or spend time with anyone under 40, 'Really?' is pop culture's pithiest way to deliver a withering put-down. ”