American - Journalist | April 14, 1971 -
If you want to become a mother, you can. I promise. It may not happen the way you think, but it's possible. It just takes a combination of a little planning and a lot of living your life.
Faith Salie
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My first husband and I never came close to having kids.
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I spent my late twenties and all of my thirties figuring out what I was supposed to be doing and where my home was.
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Most of my best friends had children in their early 40s.
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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.
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Donald Trump, who surely has lots of high-stakes issues on which to focus, is consumed with the appearance of women.
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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 actually speaks like a 3rd grader.
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People who champion Trump say they don't want politics-as-usual. But 'politic' is also an adjective. It means 'tactful and diplomatic.' It's necessary for an elected official to be politic.
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Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?
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The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.
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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 athletes, at the statues that stand erect in big cities and small. Girls have always known they were allowed to feel anything - except anger.
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The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.
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