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Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Hi, thank you for your question…honestly, the only way around writer's block I have ever seen is through it. You just put stuff on a page, even if it …moreHi, thank you for your question…honestly, the only way around writer's block I have ever seen is through it. You just put stuff on a page, even if it is rubbish at the outset, so that you can go back and fix it. With ASHLEY'S WAR this was not so much an issue as there was so much material that the challenge was culling it rather than putting anything at all on the page. On a more personal note, it is in some ways harder to have writer's block when you only have limited hours to write. With work and family you are fighting to find the hours in the day, so when you do get to your computer it is a joy to just focus on the pages in front of you. But when I do get writer's block, particularly on journalism, i will just write something - even if I don't care for it at all - and then return to fix it.(less)

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Oh, the best thing about being a writer is to have the privilege of entering people's worlds and lives in order to share them with readers. In the cas…moreOh, the best thing about being a writer is to have the privilege of entering people's worlds and lives in order to share them with readers. In the case of ASHLEY'S WAR, this was such an incredible group of friends -- and in some ways was the ultimate story of female friendship in the least likely of places --and fierce women driven by purpose, and it amazed me that I had never heard of them and that America had never met them. That is why I felt so drawn to this story and just driven to tell it. I had the chance to spend time in people's lives who had such grace and strength and courage and who really made me wonder about the entire way we view the American hero story. And I wanted to share that with America. ASHLEY'S WAR gave me the chance to bring these people into reader's lives, and that is a wonderful thing.(less)

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Average rating: 3.92 · 27,985 ratings · 3,899 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe 3.76 avg rating — 18,505 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield 4.32 avg rating — 5,973 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice 4.06 avg rating — 3,491 ratings — published 2021 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	10 Common Core Essentials: Nonfiction: Selections from New and Classic Books for the English Language Arts Standards for Middle and High School by Diane Ravitch, Rachel L. Swarns, Richard Wright 3.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Child Brides, Global Consequences: How to End Child Marriage by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Goodreads Author), Lynn S. ElHarake 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Building Inclusive Economies: How Women’s Economic Advancement Promotes Sustainable Growth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women and the Law: Leveling the Global Economic Playing Field by Rachel Vogelstein, Jamille Bigio, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Brave young women complete heroic acts everyday, with no one bearing witness. This was a chance to even the ledger, to share one small story the made the difference between starvation and survival for the families whose lives it changed. I wanted to pull the curtain back for readers on a place foreigners know more for its rocket attacks and roadside bombs than its countless quiet feats of courage. And to introduce them to the young women like Kamila Sidiqi who will go on. No matter what.”
― Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

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“I brought my daughter today because I wanted her to know what a hero was," the woman said, holding the hand of a little girl. "And I wanted her to know girls could be heroes, too.”
― Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

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“What I know is that the young women I met across northeastern Syria, from all its communities—Arab, Kurd, Christian—want the same things from their lives as thousands of girls I have met every other place in the world, including the United States: a chance to go to school and an opportunity to forge their own future. The world has a way of telling girls and young women what they should want from their lives, and of telling them not to ask for too much.”
― Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice

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