Senator Elizabeth Warren, PINKIE PROMISES

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Senator Elizabeth Warren joins Zibby to discuss her thirteenth book, Pinkie Promises. Senator Warren shares how her tradition of pinkie promising young girls and women inspired the story's premise, why it was important for her to focus on her protagonist's efforts rather than results, and the picture book's secret second plot that will entertain young readers no matter how many times they read it.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
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0:35.0	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:40.0	Senator Elizabeth Warren is the author of Pinky Promises. Elizabeth Warren has served as the United States Senator of Massachusetts
0:45.0	since 2013. She is a former law professor and one of the nation's leading progressive voices.
0:51.1	Elizabeth is the author of numerous books, including This Fight is Our Fight. She lives
0:55.6	with her husband and their golden retriever in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Welcome, Senator Warren.
1:00.2	Thank you so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books. Thank you. I'm delighted
1:04.8	to be here because I remember being a mom who didn't have time to read books. Oh, well, there you go.
1:09.5	So what did you do? How did you find time?
1:12.0	You know, I was one of those moms who read, like, by keeping books propped open on the kitchen
1:18.2	counter. And so I would be stirring things on the stove. I have books. I guess people would be
1:24.1	appalled by this, but, you know, like had popped grease on it and pancake batter.
1:30.6	And because I kind of read all the time.
1:34.4	I nursed both my babies.
1:36.4	I think one of the things I love best is I could read when I did that.
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