Women Don't Owe You Pretty

The most wonderful, empowering, and uplifting book! I have shared this with all my friends and we cant get enough of florence given and her writing!

Thank you Florence. I’m on my healing journey and this book spoke to me in a way I needed. I will forever cherish this book and reread it often. Thank you. If you are going through a healing journey, read it. Women everywhere need to read this because it’s important to our future and understanding things.

This was so refreshing to read and opened my mindset to realizing things I didn’t. I was doing that was ending up hurting me made me want to take a deeper perception on how I view myself and how I can take care of myself.

I cannot stress how much I loved this book! A lot of what I read I’ve learned through lived experience and I can look back and remember exactly when and how I learned it. But how gentler it would’ve been to learn it from a book than from the world. 10/10 recommend if you’re looking for a fun, freeing, and fierce self help (ish) book full of color, casual narrative, illustrations, and insight that will make you relook at yourself and the world around you. She’s also extremely inclusive of all identities and communities - on the second page she mentions ableism and its impacts on society; as a full time wheelchair user, I was sold instantly. In the wise words of Forence, “Life is too short not to love the sh*t out of yourself! You are the love of your own life, so start acting accordingly.”

Love the book but arrived dirty and full of fingerprints!

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This book literally helped heal so many parts of myself I reread it every summer to remind myself and see my growth

Much like some other reviews, my largest issue with this book is that it's essentially "Baby's First Introduction to Feminism." There was no discourse or groundbreaking concepts about feminism that I have not already thoroughly encountered- not even from reading feminists texts, but literally just on Instagram. This is a very baseline intro for someone who has not done any of their own reading or research but wants to get into self-empowerment and feminism. Additionally, this whole new trend of talking about being an 'empath' is a bit to woo-woo for me. Not every woman who is sensitive to the feelings of others is an empath. Most people aren't. There's just a lot of stuff in this book that's a bit too pseudo-spiritual for me. The art was really cool and I think that FG is awesome! It was just a really expensive purchase for essentially what I have already read and thus couldn't really emotionally connect with because this content is largely available from any loud feminist on the internet.

Eye opening, brilliant, honest. Florence Given will say it like it is. Everything you thought you knew about yourself and the way you’ve built your self confidence, you might need a step back and go through it again. Everything you did not want to deal with, she will take it out of you and make you face it. I suggest this book to every woman who needs to lift a huge middle finger to the world and might need a friend by her side while she does it. Facing your own flaws, talking about sexuality, setting boundaries, Florence is that friend through this journey. A thank you is not enough

Awesome

Must read for women!

Um livro p se ler refletindo e aproveitando. Um livro que deve ser lido aos poucos para que seja absorvido de maneira saborosa ou dolorosamente libertadora. Que ele não passe em vão por você. Parabéns à Florence e a todas as mulheres que estão usando suas cabeças e suas armas para buscarem suas identidades, autenticidades e fortalezas.

Florence Given hat hier definitiv ein Werk abgeliefert, was einschlägt. Alleine die Einleitung/das Vorwort sollte in jeder Schule Einzug halten! Es würde so viel bewegen und Unsicherheiten beseitigen. Gerade als Vorgesetzte mit vielen jungen Frauen (zw. 17 und 24) erlebe ich oft die Unsicherheiten dieser jungen, weiblichen Generation. Und ich wünschte, dass ich dieses Buch schon in meinen Teenagerzeiten gelesen hätte... GANZ KLARE EMPFEHLUNG AN ALLE FRAUEN ODER DIE SICH ALS FRAUEN FÜHLEN UND LEBEN MÖCHTEN. Es gibt interessante Einblicke und Erkenntnisse zum Patriarchat, die Privilegien/Nachteile bezogen auf Hautfarbe, usw. Es ist ein Werk, welches dringend nötig ist und gerade rechtzeitig auf den Markt kommt. Wer gut Englisch lesen und verstehen kann, sollte sich an dieses Buch wagen. Es ist meist einfach und verständlich geschrieben, im lockeren Plauderton. Die Kapitel sind recht kompakt gehalten und auf den Punkt. Hoffentlich erscheint das Buch auch auf anderen Sprachen, damit es möglichst viele Frauen erreicht. Ps: Männer dürfen es natürlich auch gerne lesen um vielleicht, nein hoffentlich, zu erkennen, dass es noch weit bis zur weiblichen Emanzipation ist, wenn man erkennt, wie sehr Frauen unter Druck geraten, entweder durch das Patriarchat, oder durch sich selbst.