Jennifer Steil
American journalist and novelist; editor-in-chief of the Yemen Observer in Sana'a from 2006 to 2007 and author of the memoir The Woman Who Fell From the Sky and the novel The Ambassador's Wife. She wrote the Substack Liminal until her death in September 2026.
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Their wordsIt is cruelty to keep fragile people in a construction zone.
↗Reasons not to die in Francejennifersteil.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsSend your kids to school here, let them experience its soul-destroying classrooms, lack of community, absence of creativity, and punitive teaching methods.
↗Reasons not to die in Francejennifersteil.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsit infuriates me that women are not allowed to tell the truth about their lives without facing deeply personal and often misogynistic attacks.
↗Handling the Truthjennifersteil.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI don’t know why we need to be powerless. We can admit we only have limited power over our own lives, but we do have some.
↗Handling the Truthjennifersteil.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsthis suggestion that the universe has a plan for us that makes any kind of sense is not something I have ever believed.
↗Handling the Truthjennifersteil.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsStudies have already shown that our cognitive abilities diminish when we hand over our thinking to something else. Our brains die if they are not used. I thus refuse to hand over even the most mundane of my tasks to AI.
↗Why I oversharejennifersteil.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI’m shocked by how many people are deluded into thinking there is something real about their relationships with AI.
↗Why I oversharejennifersteil.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI feel like if I am going to have a relationship of any kind with someone, they ought to know me as I really am. I don’t want them to learn to love some surface version of me.
↗Why I oversharejennifersteil.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece