Half the Sky
This book is next on my reading list. Here is just a portion of a review:
But what struck me the most, after reading Half the Sky, was my conviction that we women of the North need the women of the South just as much as they need us.
I have drawn enormous strength and inspiration from my work with women in the developing world, who have overcome unthinkable violence, humiliation, loss, and trauma. Their resilience haunts me and compels me to ask, what am I made of and what is asked of me? How would I respond if I lived through such brutality — repeated gang rape, the butchery of my parents before my eyes, or solitary confinement and torture because I refused to admit to a crime that I had not committed?
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