6/24/2023 0 Comments Chely wright book… The five of us began talking about what it would look like to reach out to more women and compile these stories. And then I started asking women on airplanes and in hotels and the gal driving the runner van at shows. “Kristin Chenoweth and I were talking about a song that we were working on, that was being produced by Linda Perry, called ‘Learn How to Fight.’ And I texted Roseanne Cash and began asking other people: What was the moment in your life when you first realized you were ready to fight for yourself? There was no thought of a book or ever collecting these stories, but I just thought it was an interesting question to ask people I knew. Those text threads began to become something different in that Christine Blasey Ford moment where she raised her hand and just told it, with no motivation other than ‘I have to say this out loud.’ And so we all began to kind of talk about the many complexities of navigating the world as girls and women. It was sister, cousin, people you grew up with, artist friends, my friends in finance and all these different pockets of friendships that I’ve had for a long time. “But the genesis of the idea was during the Christine Blasey Ford testimony, when I noticed my phone blowing up in a new and different way that I’d never experienced. “It’s not just a Me Too book,” Wright tells Variety - although many of the 106 essays and mini-essays do fit that criterion.
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