Faith Salie

“It's one thing to decry and defy political correctness in the name of efficiently achieving clarity or revealing an honest truth. But it's quite another thing entirely to support name-calling and nastiness.”

“Well-done eyelash extensions make you look beautiful and doe-eyed without a lick of makeup.”

“Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.”

“I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.”

“Manspread, mansplaining, manterrupting - all of it, whether conscious or not, diminishes women's voices, minds, and bodies.”

“Whenever I told women - friends or acquaintances - that I had to go to divorce court, they'd invariably, without skipping a beat, ask, 'What are you going to wear?' It was like instant female solidarity: of course it mattered what I was going to wear.”

“One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.”

“I know how much sleep I need, how much time on the elliptical I need, and how much chocolate that buys me.”

“Approval ratings matter for politicians, largely for good reason. A leader with plummeting approval ratings ought to take note of the needs and hopes of his people.”

“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.”

“I'm not proud that, in my time, I've tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.”

“I've spent my life being responsible, building a career, and waiting to find the right partner with whom to start a family.”

“Am I an elitist because I like wine?”

“The t-shirts that declare 'Girls Rule the World' offer an empirical falsehood, but at least the aspiration is there.”

“For weeks I ran through a mental inventory of my closet. Did I want to wear something new - to christen it and forever make it The Divorce Dress?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Did you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice?”

“Donald Trump, who surely has lots of high-stakes issues on which to focus, is consumed with the appearance of women.”

“Social media provides a constant platform on which to feature what we deem beautiful, meaningful, and worthy.”