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We need a mass of ancestors at our backs like a balast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even if it...

Lauren Groff

We need a mass of ancestors at our backs like a balast. Sometimes, we feel it's impossible to push into the future without such a weight behind us, without such heaviness to keep us steady, even if it...

Tags: family, family history, geneaology

WIDOW. The word consumes itself, said Sylvia Plath, who consumed herself.

Lauren Groff

WIDOW. The word consumes itself, said Sylvia Plath, who consumed herself.

About Author
Lauren Groff (born July 23, 1978) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has written five novels and two short story collections, including Fates and Furies (2015), Florida (2018), Matrix (2022), and The Vaster Wilds (2023).
She was named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME in 2024.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

Lauren Groff

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

Tags: fiction, on fiction, writing

A feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.

Lauren Groff

a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.

Tags: feminism, feminist, gender roles, women, women s rights

And she had pushed, or she hadn't. The result was all the same. There had been no forgiveness for her. But she'd been so very young. And how was it possible, how could parents do this? How could she n...

Lauren Groff

And she had pushed, or she hadn't. The result was all the same. There had been no forgiveness for her. But she'd been so very young. And how was it possible, how could parents do this? How could she n...

Tags: children, forgiveness

There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bov...

Lauren Groff

There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bov...

Tags: women, good, remember