Meg Waite Clayton

New York Times Bestselling Author

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Happy Birthday, Toni Morrison

Today is Toni Morrison’s birthday. In presenting her the Medal of Freedom in May of 2012, President Obama remarked that as a single mother she

would carve out a little time in the evening to write, often with her two sons pulling on her hair and tugging at her earrings. Once, a baby spit up on her tablet so she wrote around it.

I loved that image of a child’s spit up on the tablet – and remember it myself. No doubt I love it because it is so personally familiar.
So today’s quote in my little 365 quotes by women effort comes from her:

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” – Toni Morrison, from Song of Solomon

She’s won the Nobel. She’s won the Pulitzer. You better listen to her.
Happy 86th birthday, Toni Morrison!
Meg

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com