I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherhood makes people uneasy. The ambivalent mother is certainly much more interesting.
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doin… - Laurie Foos
What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doin…
- Laurie Foos
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherh… - Laurie Foos
I think it's still difficult to write about motherhood and anxiety, that talking about not wanting to be a mother or feeling ambivalent about motherh…
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't min… - Laurie Foos
I think there's a fine line between being so obtuse that you lose the reader completely, which is the intention for some writers, though it isn't min…
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke u… - Laurie Foos
I've always gone with Kafka's model of establishing the world from the first line, as in Kafka's famous line from Metamorphosis, "Gregor Samsa woke u…
As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled… - Laurie Foos
As soon as you start to question your own intent while you're still in the process of discovering your story, you're in trouble because you've pulled…
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind. - Laurie Foos
I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running. - Laurie Foos
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you know you have to hit the ground running.
My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elv… - Laurie Foos
My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elv…
As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers. - Laurie Foos
As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.
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