Matriarch: Oprah's Book Club: A Memoir

by Tina Knowles

Seeing all the hate directed at me on Instagram, so much of it posted by women, I thought about how much we ourselves promote sexist thinking, how often we buy into the narrative that men are superior and that we should just adore them.

I reflected on the messages we all get from girlhood to adulthood that tell us our value is only connected to the presence of a man.