Sass, Wise Words, and Advice from Empowering Women “...a book for and about women (no men allowed!).” ―Heck of a Bunch Blog Popular author Becca Anderson is back with another inspiring book packed with everything you need to know about love, life, and relationships. Enjoy these wise words from powerful women from all areas of life! Becca Anderson has gathered the wisdom from a chorus of empowering women for this one-of-a-kind advice book. From housewives to Hollywood starlets, from standup comedians to startup entrepreneurs, these badass women offer unvarnished and unabashed opinions and share their frank, forthright thinking on the wild world of relationships. Inside, you’ll find: Quotes, wise words, and positive daily affirmations and advice from powerful women on love, marriage, dating, and other areas of life. - Girl bosses and boss ladies from every walk of life who unleash their cunning wit ― including Anais Nin, Lily Tomlin, Amy Bloom, Dorothy Allison, Drew Barrymore, Chrissy Teigen, and many more. "Becca Anderson's Badass Women would make a great gift for a woman to give to or pass on to a woman friend, however. Reading it will make you feel like a part of the sisterhood of women." ―Mom and Me "Sometimes we women need quotes and pick-me-ups to get motivated or to have our spirits lifted. Badass Women Give the Best Advice is a book for and about women (no men allowed!). This is not a book that you read once and put away. It's good as a conversation starter or to refer to when you want to feel big on girl power. Oshun, the Yoruba goddess of love, sensuality, and beauty is just one of the women we learn about in this book. There's also quick rundowns on writer Simone de Beauvoir, advocate Amelia Bloomer, and much more. So fun!" ―Heck of a Bunch Blog  "Amazing true tales about wild women of yore that entertain as much as they enlighten. From Anais Nin to Lily Tomlin, from Amy Bloom to Dorothy Allison, from Drew Barrymore to Chrissy Teigan and beyond, there’s no shortage of sass, sarcasm, or sizzle and a few shocks along the way!" ―SoCalCityKids "Throughout this collected work she shares lessons from so many diverse women that no matter what is going on in your life right now you will find the perfect message to relate to. By examining diverse elements of love and life, Anderson creates a wonderful volume for every woman.” ―The Nerdy Girl Express “These bold bon mots are a solid roadmap for living a full love. I, for one, will be taking heart all the advice from these very wise and wild women- silver screen queens, comediennes and brilliants writers. You actually can get what you want, provided you listen very closely.” ―Nina Lesowitz, author of The Party Girl Cookbook “Ah, love, luv, l’amour! Buy this for your honey and read it in bed together. That’s amore!” ―Trina Robbins, author of The Complete Wimmen’s Comix “Meet your 200 new bff’s and listen up. Everything you need to know is in this book,:” ―Reeda Josephs, author of Girlriends Forever Becca Anderson comes from a long line of preachers and teachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher side of her family led her to become a woman’s studies scholar and the author of The Book of Awesome Women . An avid collector of meditations, prayers and blessings, she helps run a “Gratitude and Grace Circle” that meets monthly at homes, churches and bookstores in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently resides. Becca Anderson credits her spiritual practice with helping her recover from cancer and wants to share this with anyone who is facing difficulty in their life. Author of Think Happy to Stay Happy and Every Day Thankful. Growing up, girls are often taught to find a balance between confidence and modesty. Sure, you can accept a compliment, but don’t go looking for one. Suggesting that someone look at you would be entirely unacceptable—that girl would be seen as having an ego problem. But all this standard does is make girls question themselves and their own actions left and right. It makes us focus on not emphasizing our attributes when that’s really all we should be doing. We don’t question this growing up. When our mothers say not to wear that attention-grabbing outfit, or when they criticize us for making a scene, it seems normal and ordinary. Yet why, I now wonder, in a world where the wind can so easily be knocked out of a woman’s sails (whether deliberately and cruelly, or just by the sheer impersonal weight of accumulated experience), would we strive to diet down young girls’ egos? Wouldn’t it make more sense to shore them up to the size of Kim K’s celebrated booty, so that they’d still retain a little buoyancy (a modicum of oomph!) despite the inevitable deflationary effects of life? Happily, the parents of the outspoken badass women in this section seem to have been spectacularly enlightened…or, perhaps, merely spectacularly unsuccessful at inculcating the creed of mouse-like behavior in their daughters. These