Maria Semple
speaker
519 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Maria Semple’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There was this whole section about internalized misogyny.
I had this big crazy ending.
And plus, it's a romance.
As I was writing it, I never told anybody about it.
But I kind of knew that I could make it all work.
So Go Gentle, I'd actually made many attempts at this book while I lived in Seattle, and I had gotten really into stoicism about 10 years ago, and I knew that I wanted my protagonist to be a stoic.
And so I started writing from the point of view of the stoic, but I was writing her
kind of emotionally shut down.
Oh, that's right.
So I'll tell you a little bit about stoicism and tell the people about stoicism because it's maybe not as well known as I think because it's such a big part of my life.
But stoicism is a philosophy and the Stoics were ancient Greeks.
And I think of them as kind of the OGs of the self-help movements.
uh from 300 bc they thought that you could apply reason to achieve happiness and the way you did it was by differentiating between what was within your control and what's outside of your control and you put all of your energy only to what's within your control and they call that virtue and i think of it as kind of personal character
And the rest of it, you just cheerfully throw over to fate.
And it sounds simple, but it's certainly easier said than done.
And it takes practice, but it is, you then get on a path to achieve happiness.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Exactly.
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