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But before she was a face of and a symbol for one kind of middle-class feminist reckoning, she was employed at the United Electrical Workers union, where she kept very, very busy. Coontz lists Friedan’s activities as including editing the community newsletter, assisting with the babysitting co-op, …

I once heard a the­ory about the first re­la­tion­ship that oc­curs af­ter a big re­la­tion­ship ends. It’s called the 90/10 rule. The the­ory goes: what­ever the cru­cial 10 per cent is that was miss­ing from your part­ner who was oth­er­wise to­tally right for you is the thing you look for in the…

The next day, as we stood in front of the Venus de Milo in the Lou­vre, I looked over his shoul­der and saw that he was googling him­self.

Specif­i­cally, he was googling ‘Did Ask or Task air in France?’

I know why he was do­ing it: it was be­cause he was feel­ing sore about the con­ver­sa­ti…

I chal­lenged a po­lit­i­cal view of Andy’s, which led to an ar­gu­ment, and he said: ‘I would love you no mat­ter what your opin­ions were.’

And I know he was telling the truth. He would have loved me un­ques­tion­ingly and stub­bornly for­ever. And I don’t know if I want to be loved like that.

Andy gave my mum a pair of karaoke mics for her birth­day.

He knows she’s never done karaoke in her life and in fact the most mod­ern song she’s ever sung is Han­del’s ‘Mes­siah’ in the church choir. And as I saw her open the gift, try­ing to think of some­thing po­lite to say, I thought about h…