Author Profile
Faith Salie
1971 • American • Journalist
64
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Collected Meditations
Showing 64 quotesIf 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.— Faith Salie
The custom of clasping hands is thought to date back thousands of years, as proof of not holding any weapons.— Faith Salie
Shaking hands is a pretty good way to get yourself sick, not necessarily with Ebola, but with a million other germs that can cause colds and flu.— Faith Salie
A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is a dangerous one indeed.— Faith Salie
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
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
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
I think there's something very disingenuous about literally all people who say that they don't care about anyone's approval.— Faith Salie
I've spent my life being responsible, building a career, and waiting to find the right partner with whom to start a family.— Faith Salie
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.— Faith Salie
When I was a kid, we called every teacher, every parent - anyone over the age of 20, it seemed - 'Mr. or Mrs. so-and-so.'— Faith Salie
Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.— Faith Salie
They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and in the foxhole of my divorce, I found solace in walking to St. Patrick's Cathedral and lighting candles.— Faith Salie
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.— Faith Salie
If you don't know what mansplaining is, or manterrupting or manspread, then you're probably a guy.— Faith Salie
Approval makes the world go round, even if many of us want to transcend our hunger for it.— Faith Salie