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“I admit I feel funny when I use the word 'whom' as I'm talking to my diapered children, but I persist.”
“Whether you plan to labor with an epidural or the Pitocin Fairy pins you down or you end up having an emergency C-section, there are still choices you can make throughout your entire birth experience that allow you to feel some control over what is probably the most dramatic day of your life.”
“This is America; our icons are complicated.”
“Most of my best friends had children in their early 40s.”
“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.”
“It was my husband who had to open all the baby shower gifts which were haunting me in their candy-colored gift wrap - thank you notes demanding to be written.”
“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.”
“Getting a pedicure seems to be a standard pre-birth ritual, presumably because it is relaxing and makes you feel pretty even though your little piggies are going to be covered in those awesome no-skid hospital socks which I kept on for three days.”
“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.”
“I once accidentally 'replied all' and sent an email complaining about my then-boyfriend to a bunch of strangers. It was meant for my friend who was a bride, but I ended up addressing her entire wedding party. Her marriage lasted; my relationship didn't.”
“I don't mean to brag, but my water filter curates tap water, offering moi the finest combination of H, 2, and O available.”
“Mother's Day is a bittersweet day for many of us. We all have mothers, but some of us have lost them.”
“No longer is a geek identifiable by a pale complexion, black-rimmed glasses, a bowling shirt that says 'Nerd World Order.' No, geeks are everywhere. And they're cool!”
“I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?”
“The option to freeze one's eggs is just about the most empowering choice a single woman who knows she wants to be a mother can make.”
“If I could have had my baby sooner, I would have, simply to spend more years with him.”
“I don't think, in my entire 18 years as a student, I ever used an exclamation point in an academic paper.”
“Sometimes art helps illuminate science.”
“Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more... morely.”
“If you grasp the bathroom door handle to exit without using a paper towel, you're right back where you started, with who-knows-whose germs on your hands.”