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Women’s History Month: Great Memoirs By Female Authors To Inspire You
As women, we go out in the world every day to a life that is still quite different than our opposite sex. And while each has their own struggles and challenges, I often get a unique sense of empowerment when I hear personal stories of women. Being an ardent reader since childhood, I have, like many others, found my merriment and solace in books. Biographies and autobiographies have always been popular in the literary world with readers hoping to take an insider look into the lives of famous personalities — to know how they reached great heights or what challenges they faced and how they overcame them. But memoirs have…
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Book Review and Author Interview: Everybody (Else) Is Perfect
As a new generation of women, how do we recognize ourselves and each other without the pressure to be perfect—however that’s currently being defined? What’s the point of celebrating differences if you’re going to put parameters around just how different they’re allowed to be? Social media has given us insight into politics and helped fuel the #resistance, so we can fight back. But will we? These are some of the hard-hitting and important questions that author Gabrielle Korn has raised through her debut book Everybody (Else) Is Perfect. I recently read this and it left a profound impact on me. Firstly, here is the synopsis and a little background about…
