15 Best Women Biographies and Memoirs Books of All Time
Our society was a male-centered society, and the vast majority of women lived in seclusion in the boudoir, living a life isolated from the outside world, and there were very few women’s biographies or memoirs left behind.
Over the past hundred years, with the process of women’s liberation, more and more women have stepped out of the family, made contributions, and put their lives into words.
In gentle words, there are deep feelings, full of many historical lessons and life enlightenment.
We selected 15 best inspiring female biographies and memoirs and recommended them to female compatriots on the education front for your selection. Happy holidays everyone! Youth forever!
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The next book I read after “The Audacity of Hope” was “Girls Interrupted”. It describes the life of a girl, Susana, who is mentally disordered. This is a very interesting and well-written book. I liked it a lot.
One of my favorite pages is the doctor’s note on Susana’s case, and it records the evidence indicating Susana’s illness.
The following is the abstract version of that note:
- The chaotic unplanned life.
- Hopeless ideas.
- No therapy and no plans
- Immersion in fantasy.
After I closed the book, my heart is flooded with fear toward Doctors…I am often called a “Doctor”. But you know, what type of Doctors I am talking about here?
I absolutely need to make sure that they are at least 2 miles away from me.
I suddenly realize that the reason I am still so mentally healthy and have an unlocked-up life is that I haven’t met a doctor yet.
Overall, it is a fun book to read…My favorite joke in that book: Someone in the ice cream shop asked Susanna: Do you need some nuts on your ice cream????
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
A book that constantly revises its own views. For a while, I felt very warm, especially in the relationship between father and daughter.
After a while, I felt, no, this is unforgivable to the parents. Most of the time, the things I do go far beyond the category of “I don’t want to grow up”.
To say dysfunctional is considered a compliment, full of self-righteousness, selfishness, and irresponsibility.
Fortunately, the children found their own way out. There is a scene in which the author’s university teacher asks her why she thinks that someone is willing to sleep on the street, which is really ironic when I think about it.
This is a world that the so-called elites cannot understand. Thanks to the author for not forgetting to write it down and leave a record.
What I listened to was the version read by the author herself. She imitated her father’s accent very vividly; every time my father said “mountain goat”, he could feel a deep affection.
The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
Fantastic indeed. No Name Woman brings on the context and constrictions in old China, opening with a strong emotional and stereotypical suicide history concerning adultery.
The girl in “The Woman Warrior” was born in the United States and belongs to the second generation of immigrants. She also struggles between two cultures. But more, she is influenced by Chinese culture.
Influenced by the strange powers and gods in Chinese culture. Influenced by Magic Realism. Like South America, China also has soil rich in magical realism. The Chinese culture has always had these. It’s part of our lives.
Our concept of ghosts and gods, our Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism are just like foreign religions, they are all part of our life.
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Before I got the book, I had heard so much about the author, about how great the book is, and about how people’s lives changed because of it.
I started the book with caution, but soon my caution caved in under Liz’s special sense of humor. The way she describes her first-time meditation brought me back to my first clumsy meditation try-out moment where I couldn’t control my thoughts at all, I may have 2 seconds of silence but always ended up thinking again like this “Yeah!! 2 seconds!!”.
In addition, I love the wording in the book, I learned many new words and expressions.
I would like to add the author’s TED speech. This speech ranks in the top three among nearly a thousand TED speeches (based on the audience’s “Favorite” vote), especially since the second half of the speech is excellent. Elizabeth is the kind of person with a lot of wisdom. This is reflected in her texts and speeches.
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
The author lost her husband, two sons, and parents in the 2004 South Asian tsunami.
This book records the occurrence of the disaster, her rescue, and the road to psychological reconstruction that takes up the largest part of the text.
This road to redemption is as narrow as a blade, and every step she takes is like walking on a blade; she goes from refusing to face reality to slowly accepting it, to the past and the past that will be interrupted by the disaster through constant memories of getting along with her family.
Connected now, finally gaining relative peace. Its honest and emotional narrative is moving. This book is honest, real, and worth reading.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl strayed thought she had lost everything in the wake of her mother’s death her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed four years later with nothing more to lose she made the most impulsive decision of her life with no experience or training driven only by blind
she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington state and she would do it alone told with suspense and style sparkling with warmth and humor Wilde powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman
forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened strengthened and ultimately healed her oh man this book has it all tragedy drugs lust infidelity nature humor adventure the human freaking condition I loved so many things about this beauty slash beast of a book even though it made me cry at least four times
This book has so many good elements the slapstick of the monster backpack the sweet random friends met on the trail the heart-crushing divorce the battered boots and feet the books read and burned for warmth and the bittersweet memories of a broken family
This is a book that so many people will fall in love with when it comes out next March but more than that it’s a book that will love you back.
