Faith Salie Quotes

Faith Salie

Profession : Journalist

Birth : April 14, 1971

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

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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.

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I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the smarter you are!

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John Travolta is getting old, despite what his hair is trying to tell us.

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This is America; our icons are complicated.

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Wanting to be loved and appreciated connects us all.

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Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more words you know, the more you know... and the more colorfully you can express yourself, with nuance, metaphor, and emotion.

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I'm squandering invaluable gray matter by censoring myself.

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I tell my kids all the time that I'm so lucky they chose me to be their mom.

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

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If you don't know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you're probably a guy.

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I don't mean to brag, but my water filter curates tap water, offering moi the finest combination of H, 2, and O available.

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

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I think the curation consternation is this: Just because you like something or list something, are you really curating?

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

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It's beyond TMI - oversharing is not just too much information; it's incessant sharing of non-information - breaking news about your gluten-free diet complete with duck face selfies.

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Not that I'm any good at it, but the beauty of meditation is that it liberates us from our own thoughts.

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To my knowledge, there are, pretty much, two ways to be interesting: One is to actually do interesting things, achieve the remarkable. The other way to be interesting is to be interested, curious about the world and about other people - not relentlessly revelatory about yourself.

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Despite amazing advances in fertility to help older women get pregnant, the complications, increased chances of autism, and chromosomal abnormalities are significant considerations.

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