Z’s Walk to A: Conversations with Women

By Zuelma Sterling

Each woman has an experience to share and a lesson to teach, all learned through their own trials. Included are inspirational poems and conversations with women who share what helped them to find their own voices. Through challenge, deep contemplation and hardship, they each redefine what being a woman means to them. There is much to learn from those who have gone before, so now walk the path hand-in-hand with women who have been there and done that.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Feb 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9781982293550

Zuelma Sterling

Zuelma was born in Caracas, Venezuela. She attended the Simon Bolivar University, where she received a Bachelor of Engineering/ Computer Science. Following her natural curiosity, Zuelma left her country in her early twenties, travelled the world, exploring places and collecting stories, and currently calls Australia home.

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Contents

Zuza

Simone

Paula

Mia

Lula

Faith

Eva

Billie

Anais

To my Ls

Zuza

If you’re always trying to be

normal, you’ll never know

how amazing you can be.

—Maya Angelou

Zuza’s first memory goes back to when she was a toddler, sitting on the top mattress of a bunk bed in a small room at her grandma’s house.

Lime-green striped wallpaper, mid-afternoon light coming through the square louvre window placed opposite to a closed door. Sitting next to the bed, staring back at her, the only other living thing that she could see: a big tall German shepherd, round belly, mouth half-open, panting. Its heavy, long pink tongue pulsing. Breathing interrupting stillness.

As a five-year-old, Zuza understood that there was more to that picture than a bedroom with a dog. One afternoon, at Grandma’s house, following sounds that reminded her of the dog, she peeked through the lock of a closed door and accidentally saw one of her uncles, and a woman she later had to call Aunty, naked in the middle of a bed. Woman moaning, breasts swinging, vigorously thrusting cowgirl on the