“ “If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola

Everyday I would pause and read the words and try to take them in. What did it mean to live out loud? Did I have the courage? If so, what sort of reverberation did I hope to make out there in the world? One day, as I read the quotation for at least the 100th time, instead of the word artist, I spontaneously, without reason or forethought, substituted the word woman. If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, a woman, will answer you: I am here to live out loud..…Imagine women, not just artists or people with public platforms, but women, ALL OF US, living out loud.” ―Sue Monk Kidd, Women on the Loose from Hungry Hearts: Essays on Courage, Desire and Belonging