Faith Salie Quotes
Women are blessed with lots and lots of extra ways to win or lose validation. If you're a woman, you'll be judged on your beauty and your wit and how often you smile. You'll be judged on how much hair you have in some places and not in others.
Faith Salie
American journalist
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.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Power is not nearly enough for Trump. Power he already possessed, starting with the money his father gave him, which grew into the money he never paid in taxes because he is 'smart.' No: Power and ambition pale in comparison to Trumpbeth's rapacious grab for applause.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Real love is more than a one-time, seemingly iron-clad pledge that we will never be apart. If you're over 20, you've probably figured out that meaningful love isn't constricting; it doesn't chain you to one place or to each other.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Mother's Day is a bittersweet day for many of us. We all have mothers, but some of us have lost them.
Faith Salie
American journalist
I'm writing a book, and there's not even space for a desk in our home. So I spent my hard-earned book money and rented the small apartment downstairs from us.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being 'damaging to the soul.'
Faith Salie
American journalist
My first husband and I never came close to having kids.
Faith Salie
American journalist
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?
Faith Salie
American journalist
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.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Any responsible essayist or memoir writer who's writing about herself is not just saying, 'Here's what happened,' and opening up her diary. There needs to be consideration of other people's feelings.
Faith Salie
American journalist
I'm not proud that, in my time, I've tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.
Faith Salie
American journalist
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.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Sometimes art helps illuminate science.
Faith Salie
American journalist
I am an approval junkie.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Wildfires can leave the land with burn scars that last for years.
Faith Salie
American journalist
Hours after I gave birth to my first child, my husband cradled all five pounds of our boy and said, gently, 'Hi, Sweetpea.' Not 'Buddy' or 'Little Man.' Sweetpea. The word filled me with unanticipated comfort.
Faith Salie
American journalist
There's a bit of a reluctance on my part to promote myself as any kind of hero because the things I've had to overcome in my life are not the deepest, darkest things.
Faith Salie
American journalist
I asked God for a healthy baby. An answer arrived in my daughter.
Faith Salie
American journalist
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