Goodreads asked Sonya Lea:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Sonya Lea Thelma & Louise. Because it's about women outlaws, and we need more of them in the era in which we are living. It's a relationship story with politics intact. No one has to devolve to the other's story. The film came to me in 1991, when I was still drinking, and it would take me six more years to get up the courage to stop hurting myself, but these characters planted something in me that was a beginning. Writing my memoir was a way for me to understand and make whole my experience. It's still revolutionary to tell the truth about women's lives.

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