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Sally Wainwright

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
548 total appearances

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

You know, historically, when you think about Charlotte Bronte, when she wrote Jane Eyre, the reason that was such a big part, a big part of why that was such a big hit when she wrote it, because it was the first time

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

there was some literature that was genuinely about the female experience.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

As a governess, a working class woman, writing about what it was really like to experience what she went through as a woman.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

But I think that's what we've got wrong for so long is that

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

men have written women.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

The way that they thought.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

We've bought in to what women should be because of what we've seen on screen.

unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver
Sally Wainwright on Riot Women, Identity Theft of Menopause, and Writing Real Female Characters

Thank you.

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