Dear Annette: A Love Letter to an Unforgettable Woman

Princella Talley
3 min readMar 13, 2022
Photo by Debby Hudson on Unsplash

A popular prompt for Women’s History Month is letter writing to an inspirational woman. Below is a letter written to my grandmother.

As I write this to you, my mind returns to childhood. The best mornings began with mud pies baked under the Louisiana sun and evenings were spent pulling honeysuckle from trees. There were other days I wish I could forget. But there’s one day…

Princella Talley

Top Writer in Feminism. Public Voices fellow of the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.