 My initial reaction was like, why me? How in the world am I possibly going to write anything that's, it was daunting, honestly. To make it less daunting, Ifo looked for ways to make history feel personal. She considered the lives of figures like the suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt. I wonder about these women who were very ahead of their time and whose ideas may have been considered controversial. Did they always have the support of their parents or were they estranged from them? Were they going against the grain? What was that relationship like?