The Rules Do Not Apply

Why? “I want to do it because I want to do it,” Amelia Earhart once wrote in a letter to her husband. “Women must try to do things as men have tried.”

haracter is who you are when nobody else is watching,”

ne thing that is so difficult for African people,” Soldaat continued, “there’s no way that you can discuss something that’s happened below the belt.”

were free to be you and me!

were free to be you and me!

Writing was the solution to every problem—financial, emotional, intellectual.

WHEN I RETURNED FROM

If I took a long enough flight to a strange enough place, maybe I could leave this fever dream behind.

I did not, after all, have children. I was free to experience just a little more.

But it has been made overwhelmingly clear to me now that anything you think is yours by right can vanish,