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brisingr's review against another edition
5.0
Your anger is a gift you give to yourself and the world that is yours. In anger, I have lived more fully, freely, intensely, sensitively, and politically. If ever there was a time not to silence yourself, to channel your anger into healthy places and choices, this is it.
This was a beautiful, much needed insight into women's anger. The author asks: can you read a book about anger without becoming angry yourself? The answer is still no, especially when it's an anger that is directly connected to the injustice that you've lived through ever since you were born. It was very eye-opening, liberating and healing to read all about these instances; and, selfishly, to understand that I am not alone in my suffering.
It kills me to know that this entire humanity is built on the collective abuse of women everywhere. It is literally breaking my heart, to know that any silence that exists in history it does because of too much pain and too much stiffled anger.
It gives me hope to know that, in the end, no silence lasts forever. Because, in the end, this book is hopeful. It bristles with anger, raw and valid, but so valuable because it inspires change. I think we need to stare straight into the 'eyes' of the injustice we've suffered and say, no you have no more power. no, i will do this instead with my anger.
I can't say how much I needed this read. I'm so angry, and I've been so damn angry for such a long time over things I was never allowed to talk about. But hey, can you hear me now? Give me a bit more, and I'll try again, louder. I'll try to do better, for myself and for all the other women in my life.
It's really empowering, to have a whole 400 pages long book dedicated to validating feelings you barely acknowledged as existing. A thank you maybe is not enough.
This was a beautiful, much needed insight into women's anger. The author asks: can you read a book about anger without becoming angry yourself? The answer is still no, especially when it's an anger that is directly connected to the injustice that you've lived through ever since you were born. It was very eye-opening, liberating and healing to read all about these instances; and, selfishly, to understand that I am not alone in my suffering.
It kills me to know that this entire humanity is built on the collective abuse of women everywhere. It is literally breaking my heart, to know that any silence that exists in history it does because of too much pain and too much stiffled anger.
It gives me hope to know that, in the end, no silence lasts forever. Because, in the end, this book is hopeful. It bristles with anger, raw and valid, but so valuable because it inspires change. I think we need to stare straight into the 'eyes' of the injustice we've suffered and say, no you have no more power. no, i will do this instead with my anger.
I can't say how much I needed this read. I'm so angry, and I've been so damn angry for such a long time over things I was never allowed to talk about. But hey, can you hear me now? Give me a bit more, and I'll try again, louder. I'll try to do better, for myself and for all the other women in my life.
It's really empowering, to have a whole 400 pages long book dedicated to validating feelings you barely acknowledged as existing. A thank you maybe is not enough.
ker1anne's review against another edition
5.0
very engaging and thought (anger) provoking, useful facts and interesting stories to emphasize points
itsbecca's review against another edition
my hold expired and when it came available next I just wasn’t feeling inspired to pick it back up
hanna_numinen's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Minor: Rape, Sexism, and Sexual harassment
ladygraves117's review against another edition
5.0
A difficult book to read because it made me so angry, but still brilliant.
hopedihop's review against another edition
5.0
After each Chapter I had to lay the book down and pause reading. Each Chapter made me angry. Not because they were bad - no, because Soraya Chemaly is right!
I recommend this book to everyone, if you regard yourself a feminist or not. It is not cliché driven, rather it explains the daily sexism women experience. And for everyone who says they have never encountered sexism in their lifes: Read. This. Book.
You have.
I recommend this book to everyone, if you regard yourself a feminist or not. It is not cliché driven, rather it explains the daily sexism women experience. And for everyone who says they have never encountered sexism in their lifes: Read. This. Book.
You have.
ckavella's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
This book provides a wealth of information on gender equality and helpful insights on the expression (and lack thereof) of women’s anger in society. It is a call to embrace anger as a forward-thinking emotion and engage it productively towards combatting injustices against women, starting at home and working outward. As I read, I did find it to be repetitive or verbose at times, and felt that the information could be conveyed more concisely. Also, it seemed like the importance of anger to social change was a bit overstated, almost being presented as a silver bullet to gender inequality. Even so, it is a very helpful guide and paradigm shift for women not to fear anger, but to view it as an asset.