Florence Given
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Podcast Appearances
That's inauthentic.
I'm saying that your annoyingness... And I'm not going to say cringe, because I think the cringe thing has been overdone to the point where it's now cool to be like, I'm just so cringey, right?
We've made it cool.
And actually...
If it's cool, then it's not cringy.
If it's cool to say it's good to be cringy, it's no longer cringe, right?
Because cringe really is that earnest self-expression, that aliveness within you that feels so vulnerable to express because it's been shamed before, yeah?
You can build resilience to being shamed.
Trust me, I've done it.
I have survived every artist's worst fucking nightmare imaginable.
Your fears...
I've survived them.
I mean it.
I've been publicly shamed by women I was friends with.
I've lost friends because of my success.
I have had writers critique my books line by fucking line.
Just on the internet, line by line.
And laugh at every line of my books.
Because there's no other way.
There is no other way.