Sari Botton

But the best of memoir really illuminates the mundane.

It illuminates those parts of humanity that are not exceptional.

It's true.

I also, you know, back to the point of women doing this, we've been watching these cozy British mysteries on PBS Masterpiece.

And they're wonderful, but they all take place like in the 1930s, 1950s.

And the women in them, you know, as chill as they are to watch and, you know, we watch at the end of the night, at the end of the world, you know, it's like we need it to numb ourselves.

Yeah.

but the women exist only to serve the men.

And that is what most of the narratives have been until recently.

You know, um, it's, it's depressing to me to see all these women in roles that really are, they're ornamental.

And so now is the time for us to say, especially when all of our rights are being reversed, uh,

starting with our reproductive rights and, you know, who knows what else is, you know, they want to take away our right to vote, you know, the Heritage Foundation people.

We really need to show up and show a different norm, which is, you know, what it's like to be a woman.

Well, I think there's no one identity that is the real you.

I think that we evolve over time.

I also, you know, the world changed and...

As I was writing the book, I realized some things that things I thought were true about me weren't really true about me.

I realized that, you know, like everybody, I'm a work in progress.

And I think the pandemic really blew my mind.

I think having mono really blew my mind.