Here is that road, maybe a thousand miles long, and the woman walking down it isn’t at mile one. I don’t know how far she has to go, but I know she’s not going backward, despite it all—and she’s not walking alone. Maybe it’s countless men and women and people with more interesting genders.

After the Charlottesville Nazi incident and the flooding from Harvey, I wrote about how our country is making progress, but that we weren't there yet. It's true, we're not "there" wherever there is, but we're on that road and we're not alone.

This book was surprisingly uplifting, considering it's topics of domestic abuse, rape, and other depressing bits.