Sublime

I also realized that a super-driven, secular, and slightly flamboyant seventeen-year-old carrying a Bible in her bag was, indeed, a little bit weird. In the most wonderful of ways.

deputized

On a nearby television, I watched Cleveland sports fans burn the jersey of some basketball player, a self-proclaimed messiah who’d left because winning was hard there and it’d be easier in Florida.

And, by the way, our “good enough” is great.

Dr. Julie Smith, a clinical psychologist and bestselling author of Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?,

Maybe women would finally be considered fully formed human beings, instead of off-brand men with defective genitals.

I’ve been noticing in the last few years what I’d conservatively call an uptick in the number of women I’ve known who were married to men, had a kid or two, got divorced just as they were considered women of a certain age,* and upon reentering the dating world, suddenly realized they were, sometimes to their own great surprise, no longer interested

If you talk to Vanessa Selbst or Liv Boeree, these girls are really brilliant. I mean there are obviously plenty of very bright men as well. But somehow we have a really impressive crop of female players.”

Yerushalmi