Debra Ollivier

  • Why do women buy so much "merde," period?

    The author of "What French Women Know" responds to Kate Harding's criticisms
    By Debra Ollivier October 26, 2009

  • Mother for hire

    I wanted Marta to love my children like her own. But to see the growing bond between them was to experience the silent confirmation that my role as mother had potentially been usurped.
    By Debra Ollivier May 3, 2005

  • What French girls know

    Young girls in France learn early in life that happiness is not as important as passion.
    By Debra Ollivier January 12, 2004

  • France vs. America: The sex front

    A cross-cultural study finds that Americans go more for one-night stands, the French favor long-term affairs -- and French women over 50 have a lot more sex.
    By Debra Ollivier June 20, 2003

  • Voluptuous curves

    The curator of the "Erotic Picasso" show in Paris talks about why the artist's most ribald work probably won't come to the U.S.
    By Debra Ollivier May 10, 2001

  • Designer vaginas

    Gynecological surgery isn't just for medical reasons anymore; some women say it enhances sexual pleasure.
    By Debra Ollivier November 14, 2000

  • Troubled teens, troubled parents

    "I was a hired thug for tough love" by Sheerly Avni; "Whose crisis is this, anyway?" by Debra Ollivier
    By September 1, 2000

  • Whose crisis is this, anyway?

    Teens are getting the blame for their parents' failures.
    By Debra Ollivier August 30, 2000

  • New education gurus

    A booming market emerges for consultants to desperate parents.
    By Debra Ollivier August 30, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    The global impact of the D.C. protests Plus: Are Benetton death penalty ads art? Should organs be for sale?
    April 20, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Homeopathy is quackery, cry experts. Plus: Are liberals wrong about guns? George W. doesn't have what it takes.
    March 21, 2000

  • Homeopathy

    It's not wizardry; in fact, it's based on the same principle as vaccination.
    By Debra Ollivier March 16, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Vive Laetitia Casta, busty symbol of France! Plus: Oxygen sucks the intellectual air out of women's television; just say no to the war on drugs.
    Letters to the editor February 24, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    How much blame can the '60s take? Plus: Scantily clad women have replaced Joe Camel; Japanese girls shouldn't encourage panty freaks.
    Letters to the editor February 14, 2000

  • Passionate eating

    An American expat discovers why eating very bad things is very good for you.
    By Debra Ollivier April 16, 1999

  • It's a microbe's life

    Land of the free, home of the clean freak -- the latest round of microbial warfare has turned America into a paranoid hot zone.
    By Debra Ollivier February 22, 1999

  • Star quality

    Just as its enigmatic author predicted, nothing in the universe can be the same for those who love 'The Little Prince' -- but why?
    By Debra Ollivier December 22, 1998

  • Why can't a woman be more like a chair?

    By Debra S. Ollivier November 6, 1998

  • Circumcision in America

    How did a medically pointless procedure become a routine practice performed on a majority of American males?
    By Debra S. Ollivier October 26, 1998

  • Les birds et les bees

    When it comes to teaching their toddlers about sex, they really do do things differently in France
    By Debra S. Ollivier May 12, 1998

  • Those loathsome "Barney" kids

    Unlike our own children, we could turn them off when they got really obnoxious.
    By Carol Snow February 10, 1998

  • City of Light (and laundry)

    You may think you are what you eat, but the French tell us that you are really the spit-up stain running down the back of your favorite blouse.
    By Debra Ollivier February 3, 1998

  • I'll be home for sushi

    Though she once lambasted the ersatz holiday spirit of her Southern California childhood, expatriate Debra Ollivier thinks again after getting to know the ritual-heavy Christmas tradition in France.
    By Debra Ollivier December 22, 1997
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