Quotes by : Meghan Daum

In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical....

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There....

For my mother’s entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried....

Analyzing data from 79 men and women who wore inconspicuous devices that recorded some of their conversations....

For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer....

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is....

... I somehow got the idea that oak floors were located exclusively in New York City. This came chiefly....

My goal in life is to be content. By that I don't mean "fine" or "basically satisfied." I don't mean....

Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows....

People who choose not to have kids do so because they respect the job of parenting so much that they....