.GlennonDoyle talks Nanette, Indigo Girls, Abby Wambach, and more of the texts, music, and mentors that have influenced her
Photo: Getty Images In 2016, Glennon Doyle was one of the world’s most famous Christian mommy bloggers, with about a million social-media followers, and was married to former model Craig Melton. While she was in Chicago promoting her second best-selling memoir, Love Warrior, she spotted U.S. soccer superstar Abby Wambach, whom she would soon go on to marry. That relationship became the subject of her third best-selling memoir, Untamed.
Nanette I mean, I’m just a big nerd. I watch tons of trash TV, but when it comes to movies, I only watch documentaries. It’s kind of weird. So I guess the most recent one — as a writer and a speaker and just a liver of experience — is Nanette. That just freaking blew me and my whole family away. We actually watched with our kids, too. I have the books and movies that have shaped what I know, like informative nonfiction, but in terms of this feeling like, Oh, I get it, Nanette was huge for me.
Nanette From $9 From $9 at Netflix Buy Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s [poetry collection] Diving into the Wreck. I just remember reading Adrienne Rich and being like, Oh there is something that she is that I am, too. And that had to do with sexuality, but also politics and death of connection and rejection of power — just all of it tied together. It’s when I started understanding that being a lesbian isn’t just about bodies.
Diving Into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 by Adrienne Rich $16 now 38% off $10 $10 at Amazon Buy Indigo Girls So how do I possibly express my passion here? For every single day of my life since I started getting sober when I was 25, I have listened to the Indigo Girls — they are my idols.
LOOK LONG $13 $13 at Amazon Buy $13 at Amazon Buy Abby Wambach Truly, one of my mentors in life and in this space is Abby. I feel really lucky that I live with her. We have interesting conversations because I came to this with guns blazing — like no shame and just out there. And we’ve had some conversations where I’ve said, “I just don’t get it.
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