I feel very bad about how I thought about Stodden back then.

I remember a lot of people being especially aghast when Savita Halappanavar died because she suffered under a policy that didn’t make sense and ALSO that she didn’t believe in. Like it was extra-offensive that it happened to a woman who wasn’t Catholic, like she was forced to die because of “someone else’s” beliefs…

My husband once slipped while playing ice hockey, finished playing, drove himself home (RIGHT FOOT!), walked into the house, up the stairs, took a shower, walked down the stairs to get some ice for the swelling, before finally agreeing with me that maybe he should go to the hospital to get that looked at. While he was…

Yes - you can be a good prosecutor or a bad prosecutor, but "being a prosecutor" is a job we need in order to have a functioning criminal justice system, and someone RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT should know that.

My brother-in-law walked in on my in-laws having sex on Thanksgiving morning one year, and when we went around the table to say what we were thankful for, I said, "that my parents are divorced."

Yeah, if true, that doesn't change the problem. It just makes more people culpable in the abuse of these women.

We didn’t know what we were having, so we did giraffe themed and painted the room a really soft orange with gray furniture.

(I’m like 98% sure Katrina Johnson did Ross Perot on All That, not Amanda Bynes.)

The doula I used raised a really interesting point when I was interviewing her - many women come to the profession after having a traumatic birth experience, where they felt ignored or undermined or pressured into interventions they didn’t want, and lean hard into supporting what other women to prevent their clients…

She was married for approximately 18 months before she got pregnant with George. If they started trying immediately for a baby, she would have been 6 months past a referral to a specialist (at least in the US). That’s not immediately, it’s longer than average.

Kate Middleton married into the family in 2011 and didn't give birth until 2013, over 2 years after her wedding, so I don't know if I'd use the term "immediately." 

One time, I was in the ensemble of a show. In one of the songs, the choreography at the end of the song was to all group up in a big crowd, and put our hands across each others shoulders, in the non-gropey way to do that.

yessss. This is what I came here to say.

Yes, this, I don’t think the investigation was “is this true.” They were just trying to figure out if keeping him or dumping him would be more financially beneficial.

Excuse me, the pedophile Nazi is ALSO a doctor.

We cloth diaper, and wash them at home ourselves. It’s two additional loads per week for us - our water bill is essentially the same.

Yeah, especially if it was right around when she’d GIVEN BIRTH. My marriage with my husband is totally fine, as is our sex life, but we didn’t have sex for like 8 months after I gave birth.

Lin-Manuel’s personal heritage has nothing to do with the line from Hamilton. It’s not autobiographical.

One Thanksgiving morning, my brother-in-law (an adult) walked in on my parents-in-law doing something you never ever want to see your mom doing to your dad. He was horrified and as soon as my husband and I walked in for dinner, he told us angrily, “I saw mom going down on dad this morning!” and it was very awkward but…

It’s so gross. People tell that to little girls, and then turn around and act surprised that women stay with abusive men.