A short interview excerpt where Amy DuBois Barnett discusses the French writer Colette and the importance of telling stories about unapologetic women who live lives they devise for themselves. The dialogue highlights Colette’s boundary-defying life and the theme of personal agency versus pleasing others.
Who you want to be in this world, what is it that you're meant to be, to be giving back to the universe.
A lot of times we try to please others, and we lose track of what we can contribute the most.
Colette was certainly a person who lived a life without boundaries and wrote about a lot of that in her books. The paradoxes of great literature are those of human nature, and Colette is nothing if not human.
Very pankrah.
Yes, exactly.
Let's talk about if I ruled the world. My first question don't you rule the world?
I find it very important to tell stories of unapologetic women who are living the lives that they devise for themselves.
Not living somebody else's life.
That is exactly correct.
Okay, so then the big question is, how did Colette change your life?
