![]() ![]() I spoke to Rachel Vorona Cote about illness, self-harm, Britney Spears, imperialism, and why friendship between women defies taxonomies of control. ![]() There is always space, and it ought to be claimed.”Įarly into The Morning Show, Bradley storms out of her TV reporting job, snapping at her employer: “Find somebody else to be invisible for you-to deal with the world’s heartaches and not have any fucking feelings about it.” ![]() ![]() “Permission,” Vorona Cote writes, “is irrelevant to the matter it’s merely a fiction born from power. In fact, it’s in our too-muchness that we can uncover room to breathe, to grow, and finally, to feel. From the way we speak to the sex we want, from the rage we feel to the friends we keep, Vorona Cote contends that most of us will, “at some moment…be marked as a Too Much woman.”īut this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But Rachel Vorona Cote reassuringly writes, “The roots of rules are never so deep that they cannot be wrenched from the soil.” In her debut nonfiction book Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, Vorona Cote develops a sharp, expansive argument around the too-muchness of women: a label and fear that shapes many of our experiences today. ![]()
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