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...first week as co-host of the ABC talk show The View, Sherri Shepherd declared that she didn't believe in evolution. When co-host Whoopi Goldberg pressed her to say whether she thought the world was flat, Shepherd responded, "I don't know ... I've never thought about it." That flub and the ensuing media hysteria inspired her to write Permission Slips: Every Woman's Guide to Giving Herself a Break. The comedian, who also stars in the new Lifetime sitcom Sherri, dished to TIME about how the incident played out, why women are too hard on themselves...
...crashed. But then the women of The View came together and said, If we didn't think you could be here, you wouldn't be at this table. We love you. We support you. Don't even worry about it. I got a ton of e-mails from women saying, "I don't care if the earth is round or flat either, Sherri. I'm just trying to pay my bills." That's when I realized that we've gotta give ourselves a break or permission to say dumb things and keep moving. I know what a lot of other...
...manage? Elisabeth Hasselbeck said, "Sherri, you're going to have a lot of spinning plates. Just make sure your child is not one of them." My first assignment on this earth is being a mother, so if anything conflicts with that or takes away from it, I say no, which is why I'm not on Dancing with the Stars learning the quickstep...
...table, of just being a regular working woman. Yes, I've worked on sitcoms, but I wasn't Star Jones, I wasn't a legal analyst, I wasn't a political pundit. I brought that everyday-woman point of view to it. I wasn't afraid to say I didn't know what stuff meant, and that's how I got through that. But I did set about learning about politics. I felt like Sarah Palin and I were definitely doing the speed-reading version of politics. But I was a Jehovah's Witness. That's how I grew...
...something you think you did not do enough of in your marriage. Do you think you let men off a little easy? This is really a book aimed at women. I don't know if I let men off a little too easy or not. One thing I did say is to give yourself permission to put that teddy on and go be as freaky as you can be, and if you're single, put it up and go learn about who you are. This is a point Whoopi and I disagree about every time we talk about relationships...