Abby Wambach

And that gives us a reason to not compensate that work and to assign it to them.

They super want it, therefore it has no value.

Okay, outs here in the exterior world, in the public spaces are where we are going to give prestige and money.

and value, okay?

And then you look at even the things that happen in the domestic sphere.

Like, why is it you punch somebody in the face on the street, it's assault.

You punch somebody in the face in a home, suddenly there is

That is now a domestic situation.

It is treated differently than if it happened outside the home.

In the writing, even the value of saying, okay, this is an analysis of internal interior worlds changes.

is by definition, that's a cute self-help thing.

That is not something that is valuable to the world inherently and to people.

And it's just like, it isn't interior.

Because it's interior, everything that you talk about has structural and societal and political implications.

It is called interior because it is a woman exploring it.

Like, I always think of the Audre Lorde quote, like, anything that I accept about myself cannot be used against me.

And so this idea that you are naming all of the things about yourself, which then other women can see in themselves and name for themselves and claim for themselves, it stops being a weapon used against us if it's something that we see and claim on our own.

And that is...

Hugely important because everyone's scared to say the thing because they know it's weaponized.

But here's the truth.