INTERVIEW DANIELLE WOODWARD
Writing Brave was cathartic, but it took a long time to get there. I was really angry with my father but, when it was published, something shifted and I felt able to visit his grave and let bygones be bygones. My relationship with myself changed, too; I worked through a lot of my fears. The book is part personal memoir and part manifesto for getting people to rise up and it worked that way for me, too – by the end of it, I was ready to take on the world, so I did!
It’s OK to be angry. So many people are not allowed to have that emotion, especially women, and I disagree. It doesn’t mean you’ll be angry all the time, it just means that things are unfair, you’re calling out the unfairness and taking back that which has been taken from you.