Profiles

“One of the things I hope people will think about when they’re reading this book is how power is perpetuated. Who gets their story told and heard?”

“I learned to go easier on myself and to give myself grace. We have to do that because it allows us to appreciate more deeply what we can do and have done.”

“If I can make one woman feel seen and less alone about what she’s going through, whether it’s body image, motherhood, marriage, her relationship with her own mom, or her relationship with her children, then I will have done my job with my fiction.”

“Every one of our limbs is being stretched in a different direction until our heads pop off. There’s too much to keep track of all the time.”

In this conversation, an abortion care worker, funder, doula, and mother shares insights on the act of abortion and current abortion treatment in the US.

“That’s what I want: for people to stop feeling bad about their emotions.”

“Whenever I sit down to work on a piece of writing, I ask, what is the best form for this content? What is the container and why?”

An open discussion about the new subgenre of MomCom and the importance of writing the book of your heart.

“A whole community can potentially participate in the work of raising a child, and that can be a form of resistant activism.”

“Home isn’t a place. A house is a physical space, but a home? Home is the people you want to be with, the ones you come back to at the end of a long day. It’s the life you create for yourself, not an actual place.”

“I was an immigrant, a mother, dancer, writer, visual artist, friend, spouse, educator, trauma survivor, etc. If you took a cross section of my life from any angle, you’d see that it was and continues to be prismatic.”