Williams will narrate Spears’ highly anticipated upcoming book The Woman In Me, which is set to be released October 24. Spears will record an introduction to the book, with Williams taking over for the rest.
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Anyway, I promise you: this book’s value is not in the salacious details, which will make you deeply sad for every member of the Allen/Farrow/Previn constellation
Johnson is sharing her own story for the first time in a memoir due out next spring. Simply titled Betsey in Johnson’s own handwriting with a hot pink and leopard print cover, the book will be instantly recognizable to her fans.
Vincent: We open in three hours. If you want, you can be here with us to christen the joint. Abby: Thanks anyhow. Vincent: Hey, it will be good for your memoirs.
I don’t know anyone for whom fame has been a mental health benefit.
So much of Ms. Brennan-Jobs’s effort with the memoir seems to be to show how brutal Steve Jobs could be — and, in doing so, to reclaim that brutality for herself. And how she wants to reclaim it is to love it.
Scientology manages to erode what you, yourself, believe, replacing it with a certainty that the answers to all of life's problems can be found only in the Tech.
And they’re someone else: Recy Taylor, a name I know and I think you should know, too. In 1944, Recy Taylor was a young wife and a mother. She was just walking home from a church service she’d attended in Abbeville, Ala., when she was abducted by six armed white men, raped and left blindfolded by th…
— Oprah, nytimes.com
They are domestic workers and farmworkers; they are working in factories and they work in restaurants, and they’re in academia and engineering and medicine and science; they’re part of the world of tech and politics and business; they’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the m…
And for too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men. But their time is up. Their time is up. Their time is up.
— Oprah, nytimes.com
But we also know that it is the insatiable dedication to uncovering the absolute truth that keeps us from turning a blind eye to corruption and to injustice. To tyrants and victims and secrets and lies.
— Oprah, nytimes.com
So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault, because they — like my mother — had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue. They’re the women whose names we’ll never know.
— Oprah, nytimes.com
In 1964, I was a little girl sitting on the linoleum floor of my mother’s house in Milwaukee, watching Anne Bancroft present the Oscar for best actor at the 36th Academy Awards. She opened the envelope and said five words that literally made history: “The winner is Sidney Poitier.” Up to the stage c…
— Oprah, nytimes.com
Memoir and personal narrative are demeaned or considered to be navel-gazing. I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is real…
What you need to know is that my life is split in two, cleaved not so neatly. There is the before and the after. Before I gained weight. After I gained weight. Before I was raped. After I was raped.
The cultural measure for obesity often seems to be anyone who appears to be larger than a size 6, or anyone whose body doesn't naturally cater to the male gaze, or anyone with cellulite on her thighs.
I wish I had the kind of strength and willpower to tell you a triumphant story. I am in search of that kind of strength and willpower. I am determined to be more than my body–what my body has endured, what my body has become. Determination, though, has not gotten me very far.
There's not really any difference between you and me. I'm not rich, nor am I exceptionally brave (I'm afraid to order pizza on the phone). I'm not crazy. I'm not even that impulsive. I just saw something I wanted more than anything else, so I went after it.
I think that in the United States we have a very myopic view of work and leisure. Unlike other cultures where gap years are common (see: the UK and Australia), in the US we are taught from an early age that we need to focus almost exclusively on our education and career. Travel is a luxury that many…
While your twenties are tough and emotionally exhausting, they are also pretty intense, fun and awesome. That's the reason I'm so keen on people traveling in their twenties. It's such an intense time, when you learn so much about yourself, and travel just accelerates the process.