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So Sad Today: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,773 ratings — published 2016
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.02 — 79,183 ratings — published 2019
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,792 ratings — published 1968
Me Talk Pretty One Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 725,283 ratings — published 2000
Bad Feminist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.92 — 120,187 ratings — published 2014
When You Are Engulfed in Flames (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,826 ratings — published 2008
Little Weirds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.86 — 41,220 ratings — published 2019
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 48,219 ratings — published 2017
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,619 ratings — published 2012
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.12 — 290,942 ratings — published 2004
Naked (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.10 — 274,352 ratings — published 1997
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.22 — 271,022 ratings — published 1929
Holidays on Ice (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.88 — 132,110 ratings — published 1997
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.42 — 48,600 ratings — published 2021
Intimations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,124 ratings — published 2020
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,257 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,372 ratings — published 2016
Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.21 — 813 ratings — published 2014
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.16 — 64,157 ratings — published 2016
Men Explain Things to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.83 — 89,198 ratings — published 2014
The Empathy Exams (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.67 — 15,958 ratings — published 2014
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,887 ratings — published 1984
The White Album (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.02 — 51,970 ratings — published 1979
I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.47 — 42,193 ratings — published 2008
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.35 — 185,990 ratings — published 2021
My Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.98 — 85,739 ratings — published 2021
Girlhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.20 — 13,662 ratings — published 2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.84 — 20,663 ratings — published 2021
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.55 — 126,122 ratings — published 1963
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,730 ratings — published 2020
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.55 — 19,520 ratings — published 2017
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.81 — 20,976 ratings — published 2018
Meaty (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.88 — 17,213 ratings — published 2013
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.85 — 152,104 ratings — published 2013
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.40 — 372,083 ratings — published 2015
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.89 — 177,429 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.85 — 560,869 ratings — published 2014
This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.01 — 40,366 ratings — published 2013
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.74 — 91,302 ratings — published 2006
The Partly Cloudy Patriot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.87 — 28,881 ratings — published 2002
Things I Don't Want to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,424 ratings — published 2014
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,553,015 ratings — published 2022
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,671 ratings — published 1966
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.23 — 624,642 ratings — published 2021
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.93 — 526,237 ratings — published 2018
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,418 ratings — published 2021
A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 3.90 — 21,353 ratings — published 2005
Thick: And Other Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.43 — 18,914 ratings — published 2019
The Best of Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.21 — 26,282 ratings — published 2020
The Book of Delights: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as personal-essays)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,901 ratings — published 2019
“Virginia Woolf described in her fiction her chracters' pain in childhood way and linked it to their emotional lives as adults in a way that was ahead of its time. "It's a fallacy to think that children are unhappy... I've never suffered so much as I did when I was a child," says Richard Dalloway M.P., in The Voyage Out. ”
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“Acceptance is a deceptive word. It suggests compliance, a consenting to my condition and to who I have become. This form of acceptance is often seen as weakness, submission. We say I accept my punishment. Or I accept your decision. But such assent, while passive in essence, does provide the stable, rocklike foundation for coping with a condition that will not go away. It is a powerful passivity, the Zen of Illness, that allows for endurance.”
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