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“I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications.”

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Meghan Daum

Meghan Daum is an American author born in 1970. Her works are known for their unique perspective and insightful analysis, covering a wide range of topics from personal experiences to cultural commentary and social observation. more

“We've never been in a time where mothers - parenthood, but particularly motherhood - is so fetishized. There's a whole industry around motherhood and mother-daughter bonds. And certainly when my mother was sick I found there was an incredible expectation for me to tell everybody how we were having this bonding experience and how healing it was.”

Whole Mother Found Healing Industry Expectations Daughter Sick Incredibles Motherhood Parenthood Bonding Mother Daughter

Author:Meghan Daum

“What amazes me is when I see people in their twenties who have families or live a life that seems of a much older person. But that's such a demographic, a socio-economic, cultural, class thing.”

People Persons Seems Class Economic Twenties Demographics

Author:Meghan Daum

“I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.”

Way Jobs My Own New York Students College Late Married Twenties Nine Bother Thirty Apartment College Students Precocious

Author:Meghan Daum

“In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.”

Mind Persons Jobs Moving Trouble New York College Stakes Urban Down The Road Wrong Person Wrong Job

Author:Meghan Daum