Even before she was born, our daughter was our priority. My husband and I married late in our lives, propelled toward each other largely by a mutual urge to procreate, and we saw in the other the qualities necessary for raising a child: stamina, humor, intelligence, kindness, good health, a durable beauty. We hurled ourselves […]
Lisa Miller on The Cut on Tuesdays Podcast
The Cut on Tuesday’s podcast revisits Lisa Miller’s cover story about the links between menopause and schizophrenia. Lisa tells us how the story came to be — and why she got more invested in it than she ever expected to. And we hear from some of the women who told Lisa about what they went […]
Anna Wintour Sees Progress Where Glenda Jackson Sees the Same Old Garbage
Anna Wintour Job: Editor of Vogue, artistic director of Condé Nast Fund-raiser: For Hillary Clinton in 2016 Will Never Be Seen: Wearing all-black Glenda Jackson Job: Tony-winning actor Once: Was a British MP Currently: Rehearsing for King Lear on Broadway (she plays Lear) Glenda Jackson: I don’t understand that. People always say, “She’s frightening.” […]
Andrea Mitchell Cried When She Found Out How Little She Was Being Paid
Andrea Mitchell Job: Chief foreign-affairs correspondent, NBC news; anchor, Andrea Mitchell Reports Once: Was thrown out of a photo-op for trying to question media-avoiding secretary of State Rex Tillerson Andrea Mitchell was 35 when she began covering the Reagan White House for NBC News. Now, at 71, she’s still on the front lines. Women often […]
Brittany Maynard and the Cult of the Ideal Death
Brittany Maynard was just 29 on November 1, the day she took the prescription medicine that ended her life and cut short what promised to be an ugly battle with brain cancer. In the weeks leading up to that date, she had become an advocate for the right to suicide in the face of terminal […]
262 Minutes With Gene Robinson, The First Openly Gay Bishop
“This is really a man’s play,” observes Bishop Gene Robinson during the intermission of Kinky Boots. We are standing outside the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, and the bishop, natty in a bow tie, is smoking a Marlboro Light and slurping diet soda from a giant plastic souvenir cup. Yesterday, as we walked the High Line and […]
If They Can Do It, So Can We: The Joy of Watching Gilmore Girls With My Daughter
It’s hard to be the mother of a daughter, and just as hard to be the daughter of a mother — as every woman on the planet can attest. You want your daughter to be like you but not like you, and when she does (or doesn’t) meet your expectations of what an exactly-like-you-but-somehow-much-different-and-better […]