Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes? — Laura Mullen Behavior Copy Share Image
It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on… — Laura Mullen Attending Copy Share Image
If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and… — Laura Mullen Canon Copy Share Image
It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on… — Laura Mullen Asking Copy Share Image
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as… — Laura Mullen Anticipate Copy Share Image
So when we're told to "move on" or "let go," we should take a look at who is saying it and why,… — Laura Mullen Attempting Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal… — Laura Mullen Awareness Copy Share Image
I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different… — Laura Mullen Abuse Copy Share Image
With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things… — Laura Mullen Certain Copy Share Image
Wherever something is "pinned down" there's a little hole - at least one - more likely many. — Laura Mullen Holes Copy Share Image
Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider… — Laura Mullen Compare Copy Share Image
What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move… — Laura Mullen Bargains Copy Share Image
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico… — Laura Mullen Arbitrary Copy Share Image
When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from… — Laura Mullen Admire Copy Share Image
I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed… — Laura Mullen Arbitrary Copy Share Image
