A Long Petal of the Sea by Woman Writer Isabel Allende (2020)
The exposed beating of a heart, a miraculous extension of a life almost extinguished by the...
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A Tipping Point: Open Spaces in Our Public Places
My sister Theresa and I started this website, Nasty Women Writers, three years ago, our goal being...
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton (2019)
This is remarkable: the stories of over 130 courageous women and their contributions in one book!...
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Zora Neale Hurston: Hiding Places
In 1942, writer, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston rented a room on the second...
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Untamed by Woman Writer Glennon Doyle (Published in 2020)
Reading Glennon Doyle’s latest book, Untamed, is a like attending a protest. A protest where we...
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Finding Dorothy by Woman Writer Elizabeth Letts (Published in 2019)
Although we came to discover Matilda Joslyn Gage from different angles, I’m grateful that my...
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Three Women by Woman Writer Lisa Taddeo (Published in 2019)
This book put me through the wringer. I was drawn to the title, Three Women, and the author’s last...
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Mary Wollstonecraft: A Wild Wish, English Woman Writer and Activist (1759-1797)
In March of 2013 a stencil silhouette of a woman many refer to as the ‘mother of feminism’...
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Staceyann Chin: She Stirs Me Up, Jamaican/American Woman Writer (1972)
I was in the second grade the first time someone called me the “n” word. As my...
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