RaeAnna + A Nerdy Lifestyle
The Awakening by Kate Chopin came to me the summer I most desperately needed to find a woman who understood. I was in the midst of a crisis: The crisis of being a woman. I was finding out its darkest meaning in the most horrific ways. Finding one person, however fictional, validated the tragedies I lived and the ones I had yet to experience.
Laura Lippman is a badass and a woman who loves herself, and that is a feminist revolution in and of itself.
Gloria Steinem has the lady-balls to love her writing enough to make a whole book out of her own quotes. I admire this, and I loved it.
I have lots of things to say about Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer because it's great and full of tidbits women need to hear to affirm the wonders of female friendship.
How to Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson is a hilarious and insightful look into the weird world of dating as a semi aware person with a love hate relationship for the opposite gender. Roberson is wildly honest about her Timothee Chalamet obsession, but who am I to judge with my love for bagpipes. She's funny, deep, smart, and intensely real.
I will say "tampon" because my underwear demon will keep on coming until a doctor gives me a hysterectomy. I'm getting real and funny about tampons and some (not all) of my opinions on them. Also, I've had to show boyfriends how to use them because the education system sucks.