title: Wild Words from Wild Women 2018 Day-to-Day Calendar
author: Autumn Stephens
description: Autumn Stephens is the author of the several books in the <i>Wild Women </i>series and editor of two anthologies of women's first-person essays, <i>The Secret Lives of Lawfully Wedded Wives</i> and <i>Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick</i>. Her essays and reporting have appeared in <i>The New York Times</i>, the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, and numerous other publications. Autumn teaches private writing classes and workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, and her passions include solving the world's problems over coffee and reading in bed. She agrees with Lily Tomlin that "things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse."
zlib_text: > Back in that long-ago century, ladies wishing to see greater beauty in life
  > traveled backward on wagons, looking into a popular, smoky and distorted
  > mirror that let them see the world—land, trees and sky—as far more
  > picturesque than any reality could ever hope to be.
  
  > In this limited way, during a limited time, the female half of the species
  > found their freedom.
  
  — _Eden Always_  
  Victor Mahler  
  Freedom Press  
  Berkeley, California, 1984
  
  > And what happens to the selfish ones?
  
  —Rose’s diary, 1983
  
   **Contents**
  
   **PART ONE**
  
  >  **FOURTEENTH OF JULY, 1982 1:15 P.M.**
  
  >  **SIXTEENTH OF MARCH, 1982**
  
  >  **1980–1984**
  
  >  **FEBRUARY 1981**
  
  >  **TWELFTH OF DECEMBER, 2008 6:09 A.M.**
  
  >  **TWELFTH OF DECEMBER, 2008 12:42 P.M.**
  
   **PART TWO**
  
  >  **THIRTEENTH OF DECEMBER, 2008 4:02 A.M.**
  
  >  **NINTH OF DECEMBER, 2008 10:43 A.M.**
  
  >  **NINTH OF DECEMBER, 2008 1:26 P.M.**
  
  >  **FOURTEENTH OF DECEMBER, 2008 5:04 A.M. ONE EXIT SOUTH OF BUTTONWILLOW**
  
  >  **FOURTEENTH OF DEC