Nicole Graev Lipson, author of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters

Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry

Peace By Peace Productions

Politics, News

3.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The archetype of “mother” is a weight many women carry-but it’s certainly not our whole story, or necessarily an accurate one. In fact, the stories we are told about women, the complexities of womanhood, are often shackles that serve to keep us bound to a society that claims to value us but holds us back in so many ways. Nicole Graev Lipson’s new memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters captures the complexities of motherhood, of relationships, of womanhood–and defies expectations in so many ways. She joins us to discuss.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Alyssa Milano, and this is Ava from Vanta.
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1:05.8	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
1:14.2	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
1:15.0	Hello!
1:15.8	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
1:22.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
1:26.3	Now that's term time working.
1:28.7	Offered at Amazon.
1:30.3	10 weeks off guaranteed per year.
1:32.0	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off.
1:34.2	Conditions apply.
1:37.9	Being a mother is a uniquely engaging experience, and it really can be quite wonderful.
1:45.0	Unfortunately, it's often undermined by certain myths of motherhood.
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