Abby Wambach

You're constantly just trying to solve the mystery of yourself.

And somebody just like walks in the courtroom with a smoking gun.

Like somebody just walks in the courtroom and is like, this is the evidence that you've been missing.

Like you can get off the stand.

You're free to go.

That's what the tears were.

And those kind of tears feel really holy to me.

It feels like a baptism.

And to feel the way you feel, like to sitting with you, that you would cry, that you would refuse to move on, that you would say the world was over.

And that is...

Because you're not a zombie, like for real.

That's because you have not allowed yourself to be so disembodied that you can be numb to all of this.

So I think your work is not just in the books.

It's like the way you show up in every single room you're in.

You are like a great un-gaslighting of people.

Well, you baptized yourself.

This is important, I think, in this moment, too, to think about how women can show up for each other because the institutions kept telling you that your theology wasn't real.

You were like, okay, Paul, I'm just going to go ahead and baptize myself and write what I know is true.

Because there's another path where you just argue with Paul for the rest of your life.

I know plenty of people.