Bonus: Meg Wolitzer and Mona Eltahawy Talk Being a Dangerous Woman

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Symphony Space

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.4 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this bonus conversation, host Meg Wolitzer talks to journalist, activist and feminist writer Mona Eltahawy about her life, literature and what it means to be a "dangerous woman."Join and give!: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/symphonyspacenyc?code=Splashpage

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0:00.0	I'm Meg Wallitzer.
0:01.3	I sat down with the outspoken and protean Mona El-Tahawi,
0:04.9	who no surprise took our conversation
0:07.0	in many different directions.
0:08.7	Mona, welcome to the show.
0:10.1	I'm so happy to have you here.
0:11.6	Thank you for having me, Meg.
0:12.8	10 years ago, Newsweek named you
0:14.5	one of the 150 fearless women of 2012.
0:17.7	I am curious, are you fearless or do you just do brave things
0:21.4	and is there a difference?
0:23.1	You know, I don't wake up in the morning
0:24.7	and think today I will be fearless
0:26.2	or today I will be brave.
0:27.4	I just wake up in the morning
0:28.5	and whenever it enrages me that day,
0:30.6	I rent and rave about and write about it.
0:33.8	And if it happens to be fearless and brave,
0:36.1	then fantastic.
0:37.2	And I hope it inspires and insights
0:39.2	others to find their way to be fearless and brave.
0:41.8	It clearly does.
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