“Originally (the publisher) thought 30, but I said, ‘Twenty-nine is a much sexier number.’ For poetic reasons it was just sort of settled upon.” “There was a very much rotating list of who was in and who was out,” Karbo says. So Karbo expanded the pool of women to include more current women – including Clinton, actress-writer Lena Dunham and comedian Margaret Cho – and wrestled over how many to include.
“And, of course, what happened, happened.” “This kind of approach of, ‘Here’s my hat tipped to all these women who came before me.’ “I was essentially going to write these longer essays on how we got to (a woman president),” she says. In the fall of 2016, as she continued work on the book, Karbo says she, like many Americans, anticipated that Hillary Clinton might become the first woman president. “Any time you put your own needs about anyone else’s, any time you speak out – to be a woman and push forward with your own motivation and passion will eventually get you labeled difficult.” “We started talking about the idea of putting together these iconic women and looking at their lives through this lens of being difficult,” she says. It’s a book that at first blush seems timed to the rise of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, though Karbo says that’s entirely by coincidence. Now she returns to Southern California for a trio of appearances supporting her new book, “In Praise of Difficult Women: Life Lessons from 29 Heroines Who Dared to Break the Rules,” a book that offers brief looks at the lives of women from artist Frida Kahlo and aviator Amelia Earhart to actress Carrie Fisher and author J.K. Karen Karbo’s new book, “In Praise of Difficult Women,” brings her to Southern California for three events this month.
Years later, as a novelist and non-fiction writer, she returned to several of her favorites, writing a series of short books on women such as Coco Chanel, Georgia O’Keefe, Katharine Hepburn and Julia Child – “kick-ass women” as Karbo called them at the time. At the time these women grew up, they were really pushing against a lot.” “I like to say we’re all daughters of the age and time in which we were raised. “Some of these women were phenomenally difficult,” Karbo says of their unwillingness to bend to the expectations of the societies in which they lived. Karen Karbo was only 17 when her mother died.Īs a young woman suddenly without an older role model, Karbo found herself drawn to stories of extraordinary women, devouring one biography after another in search of inspiration, strength and lessons on life.
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