On writing memoir (as a woman)

Preach it, Glennon. You’re a Goddamn cheetah.

Paraphrased excerpt from the podcast We Can Do Hard Things:

I actually remember a very famous cultural critic saying to me during an interview about Untamed, do you ever think it's arrogant to write another book about yourself?

I didn't think of anything smart to say in the moment. I’ve just thought about it every night since then. It’s basically this: I’m interested in the human condition. And I offer myself up as the specimen.

Around that same time, one of the major newspapers wrote in the book section, Glennon Doyle has a third memoir? 

Question mark. Like, she's still talking? This woman is still talking?

And by the way, they only say this about women. Nobody says to David Sedaris or whatever guy is writing the next thing, that it's navel gazing, that it's confessional… 

Because men are writing about life, and women are writing about themselves.

Men are exploring the great ideas, and women are navel gazing. 

I actually believe that most of the drama and trauma that's happening in our lives and in our world is because people aren't doing enough fucking navel gazing. Like, maybe people really need to sit with their own story, work out their own shit before they unleash it on everybody else.