Is Anger Dangerous When You Have Power?

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Elena is angry about a lot of things that are completely valid. But if she directs it towards those systems, there's that sense of almost futility. She doesn't stop to go, do I know what somebody else's life is like? Do I know what's actually best for them? And that's part of what I think gets her into into trouble. So when I talk about white women, I'm talking about myself. Like Elena has this mask and you're waiting for her to explode. It feels like it's this bind of white womanhood.

1. What to do when you’ve done everything you were supposed to do and ended up in a place you don’t want to be.

2. Why the question “What do you want?” is terrifying – and how to start answering it authentically for yourself.

3. The power of imagining what does not yet exist in order to make space for new possibilities.

4. The gift of a “midlife crisis”

5. What a mother’s job really is.

About Celeste:

Celeste Ng is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You and Little Fires Everywhere. Her third novel, Our Missing Hearts, is available now. Ng is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been published in over thirty languages.

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