3 of 5 stars to Pretending by Holly Bourne

4 of 5 stars to Untamed by Glennon Doyle

5 of 5 stars to Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

4 of 5 stars to Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

4 of 5 stars to Followers by Megan Angelo

3 of 5 stars to One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

5 of 5 stars to Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

2 of 5 stars to Our Magic Hour by Jennifer Down

5 of 5 stars to My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

3 of 5 stars to Into the Fire by Sonia Orchard

Hey @CottonOn is your online store still going to be able to deliver?

4 of 5 stars to The Farm by Joanne Ramos

4 of 5 stars to The Seven Necessary Sins for Women an... by Mona Eltahawy

“Until we divorce patriarchy from ambition & ambition from patriarchy, we will forever force women and girls to shrink their ambition to fit that asinine phrase “women can do whatever men can”. I don’t want to do anything a man can. I want to be free.”

“Ambition is defiance. It is the middle finger to patriarchy’s insistence that we shrink ourselves. Attention & ambition are cousins. The former defies patriarchy through the brief that ‘I deserve attention’ & the latter by declaring ‘I am more than’.”

“I swear because I insist that my language be as free as I want it to be. I say fuck because I will own that word when I want. I i I am my body, and I own my language. Patriarchy insists it controls our mouths just as it insists it controls our pussies. Fuck the patriarchy.”

“We have been taught a glass guiltily. We must defiantly decorate that we deserve attention.We must understand that patriarchy uses false scarcity to put us against each other... & we must resist it’s prodding to tear down “attention whores”. We must all become attention whores.”

“Attention is a bone that patriarchy dangles in front of woken: if we want it too much, we’re whores; if we don’t want attention when it determines we should have it, It stalks & beats us with it. We can’t win. And so we should refuse to play & defy and subvert the rules instead”

“We must teach girls that anger is a valuable weapon in defying, disobeying & disrupting patriarchy, which pummels & kills the anger out of our girls. It socialises them to acquiesce & to be compliant, because obedient girls grow up to be obedient foot soldiers of the patriarchy”

Reading my way through this excellent book and I thought I might tweet some of the gems that @monaeltahawy lays down on the pages