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Leslie Morgan Steiner

Leslie Morgan Steiner

steinerLeslie Morgan Steiner is the author of New York Times bestseller Crazy Love. Her memoir about surviving domestic violence shares her triumphant story of enduring four years of attacks by her first husband and eventually escaping and rebuilding her life. Steiner is a successful businesswoman, wife and mother of three and also is the editor of the critically-acclaimed anthology Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families. She has written over 500 columns for the Washington Post’s popular online work/family column, On Balance and currently writes the weekly column Two Cents on Working Motherhood, for Mommy Track’d: The Working Mother’s Guide to Managed Chaos. Her writing has appeared in popular publications such as Glamour, Psychology Today and Red Book, and she is a regular guest on the Today Show, National Public Radio, ABC, NBC, CBS and many more. Leslie embodies living proof that abuse can happen to anyone regardless of education, age, nationality, and income level. By sharing her story, she has also become an inspiration for others to seek solutions, overcome abuse, and tell their own stories in a way that will help countless others.
“During the ten years it took to write Crazy Love, my story about surviving an abusive marriage as a young Harvard graduate in my early 20s, well-meaning friends and family often asked me tough questions: Why did I want to bring such an ugly part of my past into my happy present day life with my second husband and three young children? Wasn’t I afraid of retaliation from my ex-husband for telling the truth about what he did to me? Wouldn’t it be wise to use a pseudonym to hide my identity? As I struggled with these issues, I always came back to the same answer: no one who has been abused deserves to live in fear or shame. All victims can feel proud of turning a terrible life experience into a force for greater strength, compassion and wisdom.”
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