Jean Hannah Edelstein
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I wrote a new book, a short memoir, or maybe a eulogy. Coming next March
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I saw the best writers of my generation become ‘content strategists’
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At lunch a stranger approached my husband and cried ‘hello David!’ and then ‘oh my God you’re not David, I thought you were cheating on Rochelle!’ and honestly it was the most exciting thing that’s happened since I moved to New Jersey
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@Kristin_wrote
@bittergertrude
@litfever
While I have tremendous respect for the founders of Clue + German privacy laws, I have little faith that fascist American police will not forcibly seize phones
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You’d be surprised how many of your writing faves are harbouring rich spouses
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How many young women gave up hope of being described as brilliant and incisive because of the culture at this newspaper?
Columnist
@NickCohen4
has resigned from The Observer on health grounds. Editor
@paulfwebster
paid tribute to the 'brilliant' and 'incisive' columnist. Last year complaints were raised by
@lucysiegle
and
@JolyonMaugham
relating to workplace behaviour
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Me, in case it wasn’t clear, I was one of those young women, who lost hope of being taken seriously after a senior male journalist hit me on the thigh with an Ann Summers riding crop as I walked past his desk, much to the collective mirth of those who witnessed it
How many young women gave up hope of being described as brilliant and incisive because of the culture at this newspaper?
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@jzux
In conversation about challenges in my romantic life he asked me if I would consider dating someone his age…never returned
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@DGlaucomflecken
As a patient, I’d like every patient to be assigned a professional advocate who will attend every appt + can communicate well with patients + providers. I have many privileges (time, education, family support, insurance) and navigating my care is still draining + dehumanizing
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@clhubes
physician wife tok fascinates me bc they seem to exist in an era when women cannot themselves be MDs
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Sleep expert fantasizes that tired parents of small children are refusing help offered by family and friends and have their own naps to coordinate
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Oh but being on a restricted diet is not the same as an allergy! Tell your host if shellfish will kill you!
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@MsOregonian
I still have my report card that said ‘Jean could work to improve her mile time’ after I had a full asthma attack and had to walk most of it. Your kid has done so well!
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@chimenesuleyman
Love how it’s framed as something he put through calm consideration alongside other social issues rather than the result of intense misogyny
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Which is to say — the essay nailed that part. She just didn’t know that you’re not supposed to acknowledge it
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@AttyErinS
@Kristin_wrote
@bittergertrude
@litfever
Sure, but I don’t trust police who pursue patient and providers for ending pregnancies not to use coercion or violence to demand password
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People ask how I feel about writers being replaced by AI, and I point them to things like this
Has Tribeca Pediatrics ever met a single two year old ???? I don’t even know what to do with this ??
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I wrote about quite a few ex-boyfriends in my memoir. But what felt like the best revenge of all was when my editor and I agreed that the most unkind one was narratively irrelevant
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When people tell you who they are, believe them! The UK is so long overdue for self-interrogation about the particular way that sexual abuse has been celebrated as a fun part of British culture
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@katekilla
Haha I guess we are neighbors! Have been watching this suspenseful tale with great interest
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@mollymcghee
I love their shared vision of you having a stack of ex-boyfriend free copies awaiting their delectation
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@NataliaHodgins
Had my first pelvic exam at 14 bc I had severe abdominal pain and the (female) nurse said: ‘don’t worry, the doctor is handsome, just like on ER’
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Can we discuss the party bags that are handed out at the end of kids’ parties? Does any parent enjoy creating or receiving them? Shall we all agree to have a moratorium on these little sacks of sweets and tchotchkes?
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I’ve had a pretty successful career since then doing other things, and maybe I would never have succeeded as a broadsheet editor either — but I’ll never know, will I, whether I wasn’t good enough at the job, or if I just wasn’t good enough at playing whatever that game was
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A reminder from Nora E re why people write memoirs when other people involved might prefer they keep their thoughts to themselves
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@jdesmondharris
Because of the detail about being unwelcome at the party, I’m wondering if OP’s ‘aggressive’ tendencies are exacerbated by alcohol
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(why yes, I did write a book )
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Today I found a gold necklace that someone gave me when I was 16. At the time I thought 'this is for a 40-year-old woman!' and tossed it aside...but guess what I am now!
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@moorehn
Medication, therapy, exercise, stress reduction when possible, and eventual acceptance that it's OK to co-exist alongside depression rather than 'beat' it. I'll always have depression; thanks to these things (and time!) I'm rarely depressed
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@JaBogen
Gardening has been it for me. I’m not even v good at it but love to check the progress of my radishes every day
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I mean you can see how he looks like he COULD be David
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My family and friends are wonderful ppl but they’re not popping by to offer me help with my children for me to refuse bc they live 4000 miles away or they have their own children and/or jobs
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If you lived here, you’d be home now
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@ZakiyaNJamal
35. Among my friends ppl either married or committed to someone they met in college or someone they met in their 30s; 22-30 was not a productive era for long term relationships
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Thank you
@jane__bradley
,
@lucysiegle
+ others who finally dragged this issue into the light
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The truest demonstration of love and commitment from my best friends is that they will never, ever stop sending me articles about the sub-minor celebrity I went on one date with in 2014
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Lately I’ve come to a place of quiet acceptance that most restaurants offering a soup of the day actually only have one soup
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@acweyand
Imagine if instead they were taught to model the impact of student debt on the first 20 years of their post-college lives
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(I’ll also add that this was not Cohen but one of his contemporaries. In my estimation it was just part of the culture: the reaction around me showed that it was not regarded as shocking or surprising)
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Often it seems to me that ‘no one is talking about this!’ really means ‘no one is listening to the women who are talking about this!’
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@dave__whiteside
Watch a video or at least read up in detail on c-section – just in case. I had an unplanned one 2 hours after arriving in hospital + my poor husband had symptoms of PTSD for many weeks afterwards bc he had no idea of what it entailed (2nd planned section was much chiller)
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Someone wrote a 1-star review accompanied by a poem before my memoir was published; when I objected to GoodReads they said it had to stay up for the integrity of the community
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This is interesting, but I think that one of the reasons it’s hard to make new friends in your 30s is because many ppl who find this difficult are also not very…friendly
1) It's hard to make new friends in your 30s
2) People report being 25% happier when they live close to friends
3) Family isn't enough to provide the robust safety net we crave
So why don't we live closer to our friends? Some theories:
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Inspired by an earlier exchange, I’m going to do a thread entitled It’s Not To Late To Pivot for writers who are feeling 😓 about the struggle to make ends meet through creative work they really care about
TL:DR You have the skills you need to make bucks in content
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@slouisepetersen
while pregnant: 'I can see you're having a girl because she's stealing your beauty'
I was having a boy
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Brilliant writers here. But writing is not ice dancing — you can be full of promise after 35, too. And for women authors in particular, not getting started young is often a result of the incompatibility of writing with supporting oneself + family
We’re thrilled to announce the
#WomensPrize
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10 Futures finalists!
An inspiring panel of judges were tasked with finding the most promising female authors aged under 35 and here they are 🙌
Find out more, plus vote for your ultimate winner:
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Learned today that my 4 year old was melancholy because he believed that summer camp meant he would be sent off to live alone in a tent for some indeterminate time (it’s sprinklers and art projects at his preschool)
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This week I won an award for talking about Lynch syndrome! Grateful to
@Alive_And_Kickn
for the recognition. Finding out you have Lynch syndrome is bad news that’s good to know. But 90% of Lynch carriers don’t know. looking forward to continuing to work together to change that
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An unanticipated side effect of having a bilateral mastectomy is that people keep complimenting me on looking thin. A literal amputation!
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For twenty years this Polaroid of my dad cooking latkes hung on my great-aunt’s wall, and then a few years ago her daughter sent it to me. Memento of the best family times at the table with all the leaves in. Chag Sameach!
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If your parents fully paid for your undergrad degree and you believe that you’re qualified to state that other people should have no problem paying student loans…they may be entitled to compensation
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Love the reply dads who are like ‘yeah this is dumb I’m so engaged with my family responsibilities but don’t ask me to buy birthday presents, not for me, lol’…you’re proving the point, pals
God, I love being a man. The bar is absolutely on the floor:
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@clhubes
Lol so true. With my first I was like ‘well, it was an emergency c section but not like an EMERGENCY’ but then I had a scheduled section for my second and realized that the first was, in fact, quite hectic
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@JennSelby
@KayBurley
It’s pathetic that the UK media is not simply taking this as an opportunity to stand on the side of human rights, but instead engaging in platforming fascism, just because it originates in the US
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Went back to the gym for the first time since my mastectomy this morning and I cried: in part because I was so happy + relieved to be back. In part because of the tangible reminder that I now move through the world with two water balloons in my chest. Life!
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Them: there’s a just a little lobster broth, NBD
Me:
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@JessGrose
I feel real envy of fathers who are allowed to identify or be identified as incapable of carrying out basic parenting tasks that mothers simply can't opt out of without being seen as cold or even negligent
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So that’s a YES to providing British children with precious original Dahl texts and a NO to providing British children with food
Lots of journalists and presenters today throwing their hands in the air at the idea of free school meals as a universal provision. Britain’s obsession with “people getting something for nothing” is a brain disease that even evidence that universality is a positive cannot defeat.
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@HannahCaC79
Speaking from my specific experience working in the offices of the Obs when I was 26/27, senior male employees leveraged the power they had over careers of young women to create a culture where sexual harassment was tolerated. Ofc it’s reprehensible anywhere/at any age
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Achievement unlocked: School mom texted my husband, not me, to ask a question about our kid
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A book I want to read is an unflinching memoir by one of the other little girls in two straight lines who Madeline overshadows
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@magsrdoherty
NYC city hall w 2 witnesses, splendid new dress + suit, no reception, weekend at Airbnb in the Catskills. Loved it, would do again but would have gone on a fancier + longer honeymoon if I’d known how hard it is to travel with small kids 🤷🏻♀️
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@stacybmitchell
@clhubes
I think more than tangential bc it is part of this culture of ‘physician wives’ being a separate identity group that feels quite anachronistic!
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@clhubes
We got 'we accepted your secret little note' followed a few days later by 'oh wait someone else gave us ANOTHER secret little note so we're picking them instead'
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I also started my career doing unpaid writing for upstart publications, but I’m not going to recommend it! I’m glad your journalism career worked out well, but you can choose to leverage your power to help bring young people up, or you can require them to suffer because you did
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At Passover, I always think of my relatives who went through so much to get to the United States so their descendants could live freer lives (also they look like they were fun)
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@papa_nurgle_
@jzux
I had one for 4 years who was wonderful, a perfect blank slate. Turned my life around. But perhaps unusual
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@svershbow
Doc hit a large non-reading audience, some of whom will now buy a book for the first time in a long while?
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What if instead of demanding a pledge of allegiance at his coronation, Charles pledged to donate his fortune to the NHS? Just spitballing, open to other ideas
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Her clothes are awful but that's how you know she is a real rich person (amazing dramaturgy). Nothing exudes wealth like people taking you seriously even when your clothes are ugly
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What this entertaining story does not mention is that Brits have been doing the reverse for a long time, particularly when they want to signify when they’re saying something stupid
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After almost 4 weeks of quite challenging surgical recovery I was well enough to do my taxes today…I feel so alive
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And PS, if you’re trying to model your career on someone who publishes 6 freelance articles a year + has a pleasant lifestyle in London or NYC, they have another source of income whether it’s this kind of work, another job, or a partner with a salaried job. There, I said it!
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@jdesmondharris
I’ve had this job! It is wearing on the self esteem when everyone else seems busy and important and you’re underemployed, perhaps more so at an employer than others may envy. The only answer here is a new job; in the meantime, a more productive hobby
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@LeslieStreeter
What’s especially remarkable to me is that these royal visits are so carefully planned that they do a dry run the day before with their reps + security…and yet still no one figured it out
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New level of middle age unlocked: friend who I once patiently counselled through a rough ketamine hangover mailed me a jar of his homemade maple syrup
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