"For centuries, men have told us how women think or how they ought to think. And it's typically in a way that is inferior to their way of thinking and serves their purposes. I don't believe that there is one way to think like a woman, just as I don't believe there is a single way to be a woman." This took me a while to read because I kept picking it up and putting it back down, partially because the sections where Penaluna discusses her timidity in undergrad and grad school, it hit a little too close to home. This is a good combination of memoir and feminist philosophy, and I appreciated that the author recognized the limitations of her scope by acknowledging that she was largely writing about her own experience and intellectual encounters. In her own words, "...this book is not a feminist manifesto offering cutting-edge insights into sex and gender, although I am inspired by contemporary feminist and Queer literature....[t]his book is about the awakening of my feminist consciousness through the rediscovery of lost feminist philosophers."

"For centuries, men have told us how women think or how they ought to think. And it's typically in a way that is inferior to their way of thinking and serves their purposes. I don't believe that there is one way to think like a woman, just as I don't believe there is a single way to be a woman." This took me a while to read because I kept picking it up and putting it back down, partially because the sections where Penaluna discusses her timidity in undergrad and grad school, it hit a little too close to home. This is a good combination of memoir and feminist philosophy, and I appreciated that the author recognized the limitations of her scope by acknowledging that she was largely writing about her own experience and intellectual encounters. In her own words, "...this book is not a feminist manifesto offering cutting-edge insights into sex and gender, although I am inspired by contemporary feminist and Queer literature....[t]his book is about the awakening of my feminist consciousness through the rediscovery of lost feminist philosophers."