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A lot of French comedy is satire.
Earnestness makes British people gag.
I've gotten used to being a foreigner.
America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.
I'm always hoping no one is following me around with a camera.
The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.
I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping.
I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.
It's refreshing to have some time off from wondering whether I look fat.
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.
I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.
Every time I pass a cafe, I imagine it being stormed by men with Kalashnikovs.
Babies aren't savages. Toddlers understand language long before they can talk.
Here's some news you might find surprising: By and large, the French like Jews.
Certain woman will be jealous of how skinny you are, no matter what's causing it.
There are no grown-ups....Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently.
The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.
Not many foreigners move to Paris for their dream job. Many do it on a romantic whim.
Podcasts immersed me in colloquial English and put me back in the American zeitgeist.
Just do what you want more often. Don't be so worried about what other people expect.
Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide.
By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.
When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.
When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Parisians won't admit that they go to the gym, let alone that they're scared of terrorists.
Around my neighborhood, I'm known as the American who talks to her computer while she types.
The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?
I spend much of my free time listening to podcasts of American comedians talking to each other.
When my mother in Florida mentions that she's off to play golf, I think: Golf? In the age of Trump?
Usually, I'm so self-absorbed that my companion could be bleeding to death, and I might not notice.
Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.
Soccer may not explain the world or even contain the world. But it makes the world a slightly happier place.
When my kids correct my cultural missteps, I sometimes suspect that they're not embarrassed, they're gleeful.
If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.
How hard or easy it is to raise kids, especially while working, is a big part of people's well-being everywhere.
Remember that the problem with hyper-parenting isn't that it's bad for children; it's that it's bad for parents.
Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.
Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.
The French don't think everyone should have the same bank balance, but they're offended by extremes of inequality.
Although I wrote a book about infidelity around the world, I ended up concluding that fidelity is quite a good idea.
Discrimination was a problem before terrorism. Now, the bad deeds of a few people have made life worse for millions.
This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script.
I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.
Before Donald Trump took office, optimism about his presidency was the lowest of any president-elect since at least the 1970s.
Sometimes I just tell my kids, 'Outside of France, I'm considered completely normal.' This worked until we traveled to London.
The French aren't known for being hilarious. When I told Parisians I was interested in French humor, they'd say 'French what?'
My husband is so upset by President Trump's scapegoating of immigrants and Muslims, he refuses to even visit the United States.
One of the many problems with parenting is that kids keep changing. Just when you're used to one stage, they zoom into another.
I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.