Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, a 13-year-old grassroots organization that advocates for common-sense gun safety laws, knows what it means to take personal and political risks. Her second book, Fired Up: How to Turn Your Spark into a Flame and Come Alive at Any Age, is part memoir and part inspirational self-help tract. Her goal? To encourage women “to live a life on fire.”
“Too often, as women, we are complicit in our own oppression. We need to ask ourselves the same question each and every day: ‘What do I want?’ If we did this, it would alter family systems and political systems.”
RSVP for Shannon Watts’ book launch celebration at the Ms. magazine offices in Los Angeles on Thursday, July 10.