Both women are omnivores who avidly aggregate their digging and rooting around into beautifully textured and nuanced story telling that captures our attention and fires our imagination.
This is why we love and respect these two icons. When Brain Picking published a review of Hope in the Dark, we were over the moon.
We wave in delight, scream until we are hoarse, and positively glow and gloat about it to absolutely everyone.
“This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. It’s also a nightmarish time. Full engagement requires the ability to perceive both.”
Mansplaining or the silencing of women all seem like such trivial concerns in light of the invisible horror roaming worldwide and killing at will.
Yet it is the ability of these two women, raising red flags and uncovering what others choose to hide, that the rest of us are encouraged to fight for and build a better and brighter history than the ones they have gobbled up and carefully chronicled for us.
Writing their way out of the boxes society keeps trying to impose is not just admirable - it has given us all a template upon which to forge ahead with our own wild aspirations and worldly dreams.
In these dark and uncertain times it is a well grounded anchor and clarion call for the rest of us to rise above our current circumstance and shine our light as bright as possible.
"Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons."
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