4.17 avg rating — 2,896 ratings

"This is one of those books that every woman should read. Everyone I know who has read this book has been changed by it. The focus is eating disorders, but the application of the book is for any part of life. I've used it as a tool in the women's circles I've been part of."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,329 ratings

"One of the best books I have ever read for challenging cultural concepts of normalcy. This book is written by a woman who has an autistic son. It is a work of fiction where she writes from the point of view of an autistic man, complete with the syntax and formal/awkward nature of his communication patterns."

3.80 avg rating — 90 ratings

"This is an amazing book on Women's Spirituality. The author offers a beautifully women-centered way to process the damage that comes to a woman's spirit from a patriarchal soceity."

4.64 avg rating — 206 ratings

"Some of the most grounded healing literature available, these two volumes contain the healing journey and wisdom of a woman who had been the most professional and ambitious type of doctor, constantly struggling with Crohn's disease. She finally saw that western medicine wasn't helping her to get better. And she looked beyond the hospital and pharmacy for healing. Eventually she became a counselor for people who are dying or have chronic diseases or conditions. The stories she relates are from her own experience in the various aspects of her life. They are beautiful and life changing. And they give themselves simply and elegantly, allowing the reader to take what feels good. They never preach. They just give."

4.21 avg rating — 9,595 ratings

" The first children's book that Furlong wrote to express her ideas about other ways to live in the world. I recommend it along with Juniper."

4.20 avg rating — 9,823 ratings

" Furlong has some great ideas in this book. She was a great activist and reformer, and wrote only a few children's books. I love the sense of woman power in this book and the sequel Wise Child."

4.17 avg rating — 1,433 ratings

"A simple depiction of the beauty that comes through pain that won't be stopped,"

4.58 avg rating — 523 ratings

"This book is one of a kind. Beautiful pictures and a story that is unexpected in its profundity. In books like these, I think I come to expect that when the initial tension is resolved, then everything will be happily ever after. That is the usual formula. But in this story, tension follows tension as Gwinna becomes more and more herself. And it isn't easy. The story is told with compelling simplicity."

4.50 avg rating — 109 ratings

"This collection of essays raises awareness of the value of reality, especially in the realm of the spiritual."

4.13 avg rating — 4,453 ratings

"Gives womahood a different and beautiful definition."

4.29 avg rating — 98,610 ratings

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