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So much on my mind after reading this wonderful book. I am currently going through many great changed in my life. I'm a month sober, I'm working out again. I completely lost myself. However, I'm slowly finding myself again. I always knew I was (or am) a being. I was trapped in oppression (still am) but now I know a lot more than before. I vow to stay a humanist and not become an oppressor. I vow to become a revolutionary leader, not a reactionary one. I cannot impose my ideas on people for my own purposes, they (the people) must think for themselves. But I can certainly help by learning with them and showing love. Thank you, Paulo Freire. I hope your spirit can hear my gratitude. You have changed my life.

The book is separated in four chapters that all cover really great topics. I don't really read this type of literature and it took me less than a month to read and understand it! A lot of the information provided is stuff I have always felt inside so it made it easier to understand most of it. There's really good bibliography and now I will read other books that were mentioned. I recommend this to anyone who is on a path of liberation.

As a cis-male, reading this book gave me a lot of insight to the lives women faced tracing back to slavery to modern day. It was important for me to read this because I want to be a better feminist. The people I read about I will never forget. Prudence Crandall and Ida B. Wells are some of them. They fought against the grain and that gives me inspiration to fight against the rising powers of fascism. I learned about the abolition movement and how women pioneered it. I learned about the suffrage movement and how it was once a force of nature and how it then became a racist movement. I learned about the beginnings of racism and sexism in the United States. This book gave me the basic knowledge I can then educate other cis-men who don't know about these movements. I want to thank Davis for making this a read I can understand. I also want to thank all the women who changed the world. I also want to thank the women I know in my personal life. I also want to thank my mom for giving me life.