Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore
Ariel Goreis a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood. Through her work on Hip Mama, Gore is widely credited with launching maternal feminism and the contemporary mothers' movement. "It's the quality of the writing that sets Hip Mama apart," The New Yorker noted. Gore's fiction and nonfiction work also explores creativity, spirituality, queer culture, and positive psychology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth25 June 1970
CountryUnited States of America
A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.
When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.
Nourish the world with your words, yo.
It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.
I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.
My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.
I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.
I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.
When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.
New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.
They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.