Ann Friedman

"No union is more profound than marriage,” wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy in his majority opinion in last week’s Supreme Court ruling, “for it

“Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive,” Joan Didion writes in her 1979

If you’ve ever seen a romantic comedy, you’d think journalism is a profession in which women have managed to not just achieve parity but total

I waited until after dark to write this. And I'll confess, I required a few glasses of wine to loosen up, first. It’s not that I’m embarrassed to

It’s no coincidence that I became a dedicated thrift shopper in 7th grade, the year I hit my adult height of 6’2”. (Yes, you read that correctly. I

I was once afraid of the bold lip. Red lipstick called to mind bombshells and geishas, women throughout history who were meant to be visually admired, not