Our Shared Shelf


My Life on the Road
The Color Purple
How to Be a Woman
The Argonauts
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
All About Love: New Visions
The Handmaid's Tale
The Vagina Monologues
Mom & Me & Mom
The Complete Persepolis
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The Beauty Myth
The Power
My Life on the Road by Gloria SteinemThe Argonauts by Maggie NelsonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiAll About Love by bell hooks
Our Shared Shelf:
6 books — 2 voters

Naomi Wolf
Women understand that there are two distinct economies: There is physical attraction, and then there is the “ideal.” When a woman looks at a man, she can physically dislike the idea of his height, his coloring, his shape. But after she has liked him and loved him, she would not want him to look any other way: For many women, the body appears to grow beautiful and erotic as they grow to like the person in it. The actual body, the smell, the feel, the voice and movement, becomes charged with heat ...more
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

bell hooks
Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again.
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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