9 Top essays books like The Future is Feminist: Radical, Funny, and Inspiring Writing by Women by Jessica Valenti

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The Future is Feminist: Radical, Funny, and Inspiring Writing by Women

By: Jessica Valenti

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A star-studded roster of iconic women write powerfully about what it means to be a feminist yesterd…

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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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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • 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. Troubling Love

By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein

3.26

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Bril… read more

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  • womens
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3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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  • politics
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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4. The Stepford Wives

By: Ira Levin

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost to… read more

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  • feminism
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5. Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

3.82

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

6. I'm Proud of You: My Friendship with Fred Rogers

By: Tim Madigan

3.68

Format: 330 pages,

It was 1995 when the Fort Worth Star-Telegram assigned Tim Madigan to write a profile of Fred Roger… read more

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7. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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8. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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9. American Black Widow

By: Gregg Olsen

3.75

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable stor… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

By: Stephanie Land

3.85

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

At 28, Stephanie Land’s plans of breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northw… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Our space was a home because we loved each other in it."

-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

"Being poor, living in poverty, seemed a lot like probation - the crime being a lack of means to survive."

-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

"Most of my friendships had faded over the last year because I’d isolated myself and hidden from the embarrassment of my daily life."

-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

"My parents had moved on leaving me emotionally orphaned. I vowed to never put the same amount of physical and emotional space between Mia and me."

-Stephanie Land, Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

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11. In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

By: Mona Chollet

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a celebration by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch … read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

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12. Master Class

By: Christina Dalcher

3.76

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Every child's potential is regularly determined by a standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). … read more

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13. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By: Caroline Criado Pérez

4.35

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • womens
"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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14. Moi les hommes, je les déteste

By: Pauline Harmange

3.82

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"

-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste

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15. Pick Me Girls

By: Sophie Passmann

3.42

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

Sophie Passmann hat mit »Pick me girls« nicht nur ihr persönlichstes Buch geschrieben, sondern auch… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
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16. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

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17. If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

4.24

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Poet and co-creator of the Emmy-nominated web series "Brown Girls" captures the experience of being… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Do all survivors carry villian inside them?"

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"I didn't know I need to worry about them until they were gone."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I manage to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

"Every year I managed to live on this earth I collect more questions than answers."

-Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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18. Medusa

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, feminist retelling of Greek myth from the internationally bestselling author of The Min… read more

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  • feminism
"I'd never known a change that wasn't monstrous."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"I'm a half-finished map and I'm always trying to plot my points, and I won't have anyone do it for me."

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

"Sometimes, not even folding yourself into the smallest, littlest shape is enough. So you might as well stay the size you're supposed to be"

-Jessie Burton, Medusa

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19. The Castaways

By: Lucy Clarke

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A SECRET BEACH. A HOLIDAY OF A LIFETIME. WISH YOU WERE HERE? THINK AGAIN… It should be like an… read more

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"For so long I believed that I should only feel pleasure when I no longer feel all the other things: the sadness, the loss, the fear. But emotions don't come parcelled neatly. They're shaken together …"

-Lucy Clarke, The Castaways

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20. 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
  • social justice
  • 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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21. Machines like Me

By: Ian McEwan

3.59

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing a… read more

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"Caen las hojas. Llega la primavera, y tu caída."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"could tell you similar stories of machine sadness."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"Nel suo sguardo, c'è un mondo d'amore. Amo il mondo!"

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

"But when you’ve lost a fortune, you don’t clean up the kitchen."

-Ian McEwan, Machines like Me

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22. Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

By: Bolu Babalola

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A high-born Nigerian goddess, who has been beaten down and unappreciated by her gregarious lover, l… read more

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"What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

"Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free."

-Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

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23. Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

By: Karen Kilgariff

4.07

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

The instant #1 New York Times and USA Today best seller by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, t… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"if i could just stop eating for 5 seconds, maybe i could be anorexic like a model"

-Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

"Why does everyone think whistling indicates relaxation? It’s literally one of the weirdest things you can do in public without breaking the law."

-Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

"if you’re a model go with god, enjoy your endless flow of worship and have a great time for the rest of us, reenact the father-figure video, that’s what i’d do"

-Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

"Politeness doesn’t require actual humanity. It’s just cultural ritual... Politeness is fancy curtains in your front window. Kindness is the home-cooked meal on your dinner table."

-Karen Kilgariff, Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide

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24. Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)

By: Juno Dawson

3.84

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches;… read more

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25. So You Want to Talk About Race

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.49

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from w… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"Conversations on racism should never be about winning."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our humanity is worth a little discomfort, it's actually worth a lot of discomfort."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"Our police forces were created not to protect Americans of color, but to control Americans of color."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

"When we say ‘Asian American’ we are talking about so much more than can be fit in a single stereotype."

-Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

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26. They: A Sequence of Unease

By: Kay Dick

3.38

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more

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"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."

-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease

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27. What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

By: Michele Filgate

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 *Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"His hands are worms, my body dirt."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"I've spent enough time in Catholic churches to know what it means to sweep things underneath the rug."

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

"Hearing this, I get a flash of pride at the fact that Peter wanted to be with my mother more than she wanted to be with him. This pride comes from the same internal place as the delusion I spent much…"

-Michele Filgate, What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

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28. Black Friend: Essays

By: Ziwe

4.30

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From a rapidly rising comedy star, a bold, biting, and deeply hilarious takedown—and send-up—of our… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"You can't have my body, but you can have my body of work."

-Ziwe, Black Friend: Essays

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29. The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

By: Grace Perry

3.85

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"That’s the thing about being a queer millennial: it’s not about things getting better in any linear fashion but holding a painful past and an optimistic future together, one in each hand, at the same…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

"God, how much easier it would be, I felt, if coming out were something that just happened to me . For queerness to seek me out, and not the other way around. To be a passive observer in my personal j…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

"Dressing femme to the nines and then hanging on the arm of another woman all night—a fuck-you to straight men—can feel electrifying. And butch confidence, the grit to invert every traditional way a w…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

" The closet implies a literal, physical boundary dividing one’s life before publicly declaring queerness, and after. It’s a threshold impossible to recross, two distinct places to live: in the darkne…"

-Grace Perry, The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

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30. The Future is Feminist: Radical, Funny, and Inspiring Writing by Women

By: Jessica Valenti

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A star-studded roster of iconic women write powerfully about what it means to be a feminist yesterd… read more

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  • cultural
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • womens studies
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • womens
  • education
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31. Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

By: Poppy Jamie

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A clear path to overcoming uncertainty, perfectionism, and fears of rejection so you can finally fi… read more

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"Suffering is the key to growth and adapting if we allow it to be."

-Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

"Nothing can change unless our body and mind are playing on the same team."

-Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

"Stiff thoughts grow in a fear-based life. Flexible thoughts grow in a love-based life."

-Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

"It’s an odd paradox: life’s challenges have the capability to actually make us happier in the end."

-Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

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