The Shaming of Women

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I think there's a lot more nuance that we are not opening ourselves up to. The parts conversation helps me understand myself. There's a part of me that wants this. As opposed to there's one single self that is good or bad. And I'm so grateful that you are in such a beautiful way telling the truth because just have you gotten that yet? You know, I'm sure I will. So we'll see. Well, is there anything more dangerous than a woman who will just tell it like it is? I don't know. I mean, I think that's a threatening thing.

For the first time, Glennon requests a one-on-one with our guest – author and poet Maggie Smith – in this deeply honest conversation about: how to tell the brutal truth without betraying our people, how to reclaim ourselves after infidelity and betrayal, how the shaming of women who dare to tell their stories keeps us powerless and isolated, and how they both have embraced acceptance instead of “forgiveness.”

About Maggie:

Maggie Smith is the award-winning author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change.

A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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