Terry Tempest Williams

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630 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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Wild Card with Rachel Martin · Terry Tempest Williams · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

I've come from a funeral and yeah, taken to jail.

Um,

put in an orange suit.

Anyway, it's a long story.

But I ended up, they give you paper and a big pen without the plastic.

And I met some of the most powerful women I've ever met.

And we wrote together.

And I remember saying, what do we all have in common?

And

One woman said, we all have orange.

And I remember we all wrote essays on orange.

And some of them, why do I hate the color orange when red and yellow are my favorite colors?

Orange, ice, the lipstick I had to clean off my mother's martini glasses every morning.

I mean, it was, that's a diversion, but authority.

Those women, none of those women had authority.

Those women were in jail because of circumstances, not because they did anything wrong.

And I just think when you go back to what authority, where is our authority?

I do have a problem with authority, and I fight it because I was raised with it.

And I saw how unjust it was, whether it was the Mormon church saying women could not hold the priesthood, whether it was

Calling Native people Lamanites, I think there's an anger that burns in me about what authority can and does do to people.

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