Nicole Graev Lipson, author of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters

The archetype of “mother” is a weight many women carry-but it’s certainly not our whole story, or necessarily an accurate one. In fact, the stories we are told about women, the complexities of womanhood, are often shackles that serve to keep us bound to a society that claims to value us but holds us back in so many ways. Nicole Graev Lipson’s new memoir in essays Mothers and Other Fictional Characters captures the complexities of motherhood, of relationships, of womanhood–and defies expectations in so many ways. She joins us to discuss.

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Nicole Graev Lipson, author of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters is an episode from Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry by Peace By Peace Productions.

This episode is 00:52:57 long.

This episode was published on May 26, 2025.

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