6 Best history books like The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion by Gloria Steinem

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The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

By: Gloria Steinem

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem's most inspirational and outrageous quotes, …

"For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist."

-Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

"The art of life is not controlling what happens, it's using what happens."

-Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

"For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist."

-Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

"The art of life is not controlling what happens, it's using what happens."

-Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

If you liked the history plot in The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion by Gloria Steinem , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Men Explain Things to Me

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

In her comic, scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wro… read more

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
"...the Men Who Knew came out of the woodwork."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"By now you’ve noticed that Woolf says “I don’t know"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"Were revolutions ever really that we thought them to be?"

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

"You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it."

-Rebecca Solnit, Men Explain Things to Me

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2. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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3. Les luttes fécondes

By: Catherine Dorion

4.10

Format: 668 pages, ebook

En politique comme en amour, nos energies sont, la plupart du temps, soigneusement contenues a l'in… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays

4. The Mother of All Questions

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In this follow-up to Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers commentary on women who refuse… read more

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5. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • self help
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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6. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall

4.37

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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7. Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World

By: Cleo Wade

4.30

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Cleo Wade’s second anthology of heartfelt poetry and prose builds on the wisdom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
"I speak out because I know the pain of staying silent."

-Cleo Wade, Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World

"If all of your dreams came true, would they just change you or would they change the world? Dream bigger loved ones, bigger and wider and deeper and further."

-Cleo Wade, Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World

"No one nominated Harriet Tubman to her purpose, to her courage, to her mission. She did not say 'I am not a congressperson or the president, so how could I possibly participate in the fight to abolis…"

-Cleo Wade, Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World

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8. Natureza Urbana

By: Joana Bértholo

4.19

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

«Eu era uma pessoa simples urbana, uma planta que insistiu em crescer entre os paralelepípedos do p… read more

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9. Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

By: Rebecca Solnit

4.21

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Th… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
"Measured over too short a span, change becomes imperceptible; people mistake today's peculiarities for eternal verities."

-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

"As a girl, I would have liked to have my intelligence and intellectual labors regarded as an unmitigated good and as a source of pride, rather than something I had to handle delicately, lest I upset …"

-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

"Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action. Among the virtues that matter are those tr…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

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10. Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun

By: Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

3.62

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

In 1924, work began in earnest on a small villa by the sea in the south of France. Nearly a century… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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11. The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

By: Gloria Steinem

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully illustrated collection of Gloria Steinem's most inspirational and outrageous quotes, … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • activism
  • self help
"The art of life is not controlling what happens, it's using what happens."

-Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

"For women, the only alternative to being a feminist is being a masochist."

-Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

"You can travel without traveling, and you can not travel -- yet travel. Being on the road is a state of mind."

-Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

"The things you regret sometimes turn out to be the things you celebrate. In other words: You learn from what you do wrong."

-Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

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12. White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

By: Koa Beck

4.25

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

JOURNALIST KOA BECK’S AMBITIOUS HARVARD RESEARCH-BASED DEEP DIVE INTI HOW FEMINISM HAS BEEN COMMODI… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"In a time of alleged heightened "feminism" women of color and poor women are being left behind, and yet the trappings that uniquely target us, like poverty, incarceration, police brutality, and immig…"

-Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

"With many high-earning, public women espousing operating as individuals, "feminism" was reduced to a self-empowerment strategy. A way to get things. A way to get more of the things you thought you de…"

-Koa Beck, White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind

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13. Petite sale

By: Louise Mey

3.84

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

Catherine est pauvre. Catherine fait sale. Catherine parle peu. Elle n’aime pas qu’on la regarde – … read more

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14. Futures - Comment le féminisme peut sauver le monde

By: Lauren Bastide

4.45

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

L'identité, la sexualité, l'amour et la parentalité se vivraient sans contrainte ni injonction. La … read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • activism
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15. Scrap

By: Calla Henkel

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A true-crime obsessed young artist is drawn into the lives of an obscenely wealthy family in this f… read more

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16. J'y vais mais j'ai peur: Journal d'une navigatrice

By: Maud Bénézit

4.39

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

87 jours pour boucler son tour du globe en solitaire ont fait de Clarisse Crémer « la femme la plus… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. La fin des coquillettes: Un récit de pâtes et d'épées

By: Klaire fait Grr

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

La fin des coquillettes Ce livre n’est pas ministre de l’Intérieur. C’est déjà une grande qualité. … read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Fixed It: Violence and the Representation of Women in the Media

By: Jane Gilmore

4.35

Format: 261 pages, Paperback

On average, at least one woman is murdered by a current or former partner every week in Australia. … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973

By: Clara Bingham

4.30

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, includi… read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
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20. Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space

By: Cristen Conger

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A funny, fact-driven, and comprehensive illustrated field guide to feminist living from the inside … read more

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  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • self help
"One of the many idiosyncrasies of patriarchy is how it convinces us that the world isn’t actually biased or bigoted."

-Cristen Conger, Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space

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21. Clean Mind, Clean Body: A 28-Day Plan for Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Self-Care

By: Tara Stiles

3.66

Format: 272 pages, ebook

"An easy reset for feeling and living better."     — DEEPAK CHOPRA "Tara makes purposeful self-car… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

8 best-selling womens books like The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion by Gloria Steinem

Transform Your Habits

Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

Rebecca Solnit

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion

Gloria Steinem

4.02

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8 best-selling self help books like Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World by Cleo Wade

Transform Your Habits

Inward

Yung Pueblo

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers

Melody Godfred

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Maggie Smith

3.89

Transform Your Habits

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

Elaine Welteroth

4.39

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