Q and A with Linda from Vancouver, BC, Canada
“…what others say about you is their garbage, not you.”
Q: What are you passionate about?
A: [I am passionate about] respecting the humanity of children. As a marketing guru once said, “You should just delete everything from your website and write: ‘Treat them like human beings, treat them like human beings…on infinite repeat.'”
I am currently working on: a semi-autobiographical novel about a women who can communicate with water, a parenting book that is essentially a brain dump of all that I’ve learned over the past almost 50 years, and I am learning just how well I can paint (it turns out I’m a very talented beginner). [Additionally, I’m working on] healing me [because of] an abusive marriage that I was ‘groomed’ for by the parenting my folks did and from the world around me.
Q: What were your younger years like?
A: Have you read Down Girl? That. What has impacted me the most, it turns out (why I married the idiot in the first place, and why I’ve been standing on the neck of my business for 20 years), is ‘trying to win my dad’s approval,’ which is never going to happen and has nothing at all to do with being loveable or worthy of approval. A freeing discovery.
Q: What is something valuable you’d like others to know?
A: [I have learned] that what others say about you is their garbage, not you. And that critical voice in your head? That’s also them, not you.
You CAN reprogram your thinking, love yourself, and be your whole full potential (I’m working on that part…).
Q: What does feminism mean to you?
A: [Feminism, to me, means] seeing women as whole real people, in the same way I believe children need to be recognized as whole, real people.
[It also means] not “going to be people if or when…” or, as we see in our culture of patriarchy everywhere: not real people ever, at all.
MORE FROM LINDA: I live near Vancouver, BC, Canada, but I lived in Victoria, BC (the provincial capital) for 50 years (where I’m from…as well as getting my dad in the divorce, he also got the city.)
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