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    Badass Women Give the Best Advice: Everything You Need to Know About Love and Life (Feminst Affirmation Book, Gift For Women, From the bestselling author of Badass Affirmations)
    Badass Women Give the Best Advice: Everything You Need to Know About Love and Life (Feminst Affirmation Book, Gift For Women, From the bestselling author of Badass Affirmations)
    Badass Women Give the Best Advice: Everything You Need to Know About Love and Life (Feminst Affirmation Book, Gift For Women, From the bestselling author of Badass Affirmations)
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    Badass Women Give the Best Advice: Everything You Need to Know About Love and Life (Feminst Affirmation Book, Gift For Women, From the bestselling author of Badass Affirmations)

    By Becca Anderson

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    Sass, Sarcasm, and Sizzle from Badass Women

    "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” ―The Nerdy Girl Express

    # 1 Best Seller in Addiction & Recovery, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

    Everything you need to know about love, life, relationships, sex, men, and being a badass. Be enlightened with these no nonsense takes on dating, love life, sex, self-love, and more!

    Advice from girl bosses of all kinds. Women are, far and away, the Oral Sex. Women’s Studies scholar Becca Anderson has gathered the wisdom from a chorus of fabulous femmes 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 and forthright thinking on the wild world of relationships.

    A sassy collection of woman wisdom. This delightfully dishy gathering of gal pals is like having a heart-to-heart with 200 of your closest friends. Garrulous girls and loquacious ladies from every walk of life unleash their wicked wit in this humorous and enlightening compilation and tell it like it is. From Anais Nin, Lily Tomlin, Amy Bloom, Dorothy Allison, Drew Barrymore, Chrissy Teigan and beyond, there's no shortage of sass, sarcasm, or sizzle and a few shocks along the way!

    In Badass Women Give the Best Advice, readers will find:

    • Wisdom about sex, dating, break ups, weddings, the prerequisites for the perfect kiss, and more!
    • Quotes and true stories from famous women and girl bosses.
    • Quizzes, love and sex bucket lists and topics like “Size Really Does Matter,” and “Cry Me a River, The Weepiest Romantic Movies Ever” that will spice up your sex and love life.

    If you’re a fan Badass Affirmations, The Book of Awesome Women, or Women Who Launch, then you’ll love Badass Women Give the Best Advice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMango
    Release dateMar 13, 2018
    ISBN9781633536944
    Author

    Becca Anderson

    Becca Anderson comes from a long line of preachers and teachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher's side of her family led her to become a women'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”' which meets at homes, churches and bookstores monthly 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, Becca Anderson shares her inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com/ She also blogs about Awesome Women, like those in her book Badass Affirmations, at https://theblogofawesomewomen.wordpress.com/

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      Badass Women Give the Best Advice - Becca Anderson

      Copyright © 2018 Becca Anderson

      Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.

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      Badass Women Give the Best Advice: Everything You Need to Know About Love and Life

      Library of Congress Cataloging

      ISBN: (p) 978-1-63353-693-7 (e) 978-1-63353-694-4

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017964185

      BISAC category code REF019000 - REFERENCE / Quotations

      BISAC category code SOC028000 - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women’s Studies

      Printed in the United States of America

      To all my gal pals, BFF’s and women friends. I have laughed, loved, and learned so much from you, and am very lucky to have you in my life. xoxo

      Contents

      FOREWORD

      INTRODUCTION

      Everything You Need to Know About Life and Love

      CHAPTER 1

      Love Is All You Need. Really?

      CHAPTER 2

      Love, Lust, and What We Wore

      CHAPTER 3

      Love Hurts (Sometimes)

      CHAPTER 4

      Womanly Wisdom: Love Lost and Found

      CHAPTER 5

      Do We Really Even Need Men Anymore?

      CHAPTER 6

      Strong Women, Strong Coffee, Strong Love

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      FOREWORD

      ’Tis true, badass women do give the very best advice. For one thing, they have undoubtedly seen it all, been there, done that, and learned from the necessary life experiences that qualify you to wear the badge of honor of a badass woman. Badass women are fiercely independent and dance to the beat of their own drum whether anybody else likes it or not. The friendly stranger who noticed you’re having a wardrobe malfunction while on your first date and pulled you into the ladies’ room like she was your personal stylist? She’s a badass. The single attorney mom who drives her kids and yours to both ballet and soccer, then heads off to sing in her own punk band? Awesomely badass and doubtless the attorney you’ll want to call upon when in need. The recent college grad who refused to get her male boss coffee on her first day of work? Total badass and future SHE-EO of her own startup. Badass women are all around and are exemplars of how to live on your own terms, fully and unabashedly. We can all learn a lot from these fabulous females and live a happier life thanks to the wisdom of these wild and wonderful women.

      Now go out and kick some ass!

      Trina Robbins

      INTRODUCTION

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      Everything You Need to Know About Life and Love

      I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

      —Maya Angelou

      Let’s face it, women are the Oral Sex. Here we have a sidesplitting spotlight on the all-important subject of amore—and as it turns out, women have a whole lot to say about love. This big book of badassery is like a heart-to-heart talk with two hundred of your best friends! Topics discussed include love is fabulous, how friends are our other significant others, size really does matter, it’s good to get lost, and are men really necessary? and cover jobs, blind dates, sex, personal ads, break ups, weddings, and the prerequisites for the perfect first kiss. Gossipy, giddy, and extremely good advice, this compendium of radical common sense features loquacious ladies of every stripe from movie stars to moms, literati, glitterati, psychologist, sexperts, and all around bad girls tellin’ it like it is.

      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 women never allowed knock-downs to their confidence—they were badass, and they knew it. For amplification of your own sassy attitude—or perhaps just your own amusement—read on.

      CHAPTER 1

      •

      Love Is All You Need. Really?

      If there’s one thing that’s been on the minds of all badass women for as long as we’ve been around, it’s love. And since wild women have been on the scene right from the very beginning, it’s safe to say that we’ve accumulated a veritable stockpile of wit and wisdom on the subject of amour—both good and bad. Whether the topic at hand is true love, lost love, scandalous love, or even (heaven forbid) unrequited love, we’ve always got a good story or an inspiring motto to share.

      What better way to celebrate our past, present, and future than with a book devoted to one of our favorite subjects? There are as many kinds of wild love out there as there are wild women, and that’s certainly something worth honoring. With this in mind, there’s much more to this book than your usual Valentine’s card sentiments (although there’s plenty of that for you true romantics to enjoy). In the chapter that follows, you’ll find reflections on everything from the joys of new love to the heartbreak of divorce, and from lust and sex to loving someone of the same gender. It’s all part of what makes us so wonderfully wild, and it’s all part of this book as well.

      So whether you’re in the middle of a lasting romance, starting something new, or even recovering from your last tangle with

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