Serious Reading Magazine: 40 Reasons Why Reading Makes You Better and Brighter

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Books Can Turn You into a Badass Women Books have taught women to be fearless, sassy, sexy, and adventurous. Books made women believe that they can be whoever they want, and whenever they want. Books made them realize that their sexuality is not going to shackle their dreams to the hearth of their homes. Books made women realize that there is nothing women can’t do and some things women can do better than a man. Heroines like Katniss Everdeen have taught young girls that they can save the world and they don’t need a knight in shining armor to save them. Girls like Malala taught the world that no amount of terrorists could stop young girls from going to school and getting the education that they deserve. And on a lighter note, heroines, like Scarlett O’Hara and Jo March, have taught women all over the globe to be sassy and saucy and be themselves really! Books have taught women to dress fearlessly, shut down haters in a single tweet and flirt with men in style. Sometimes, you can learn valuable lessons from women of the past generations, who had to deal with the woes of patriarchy in their everyday lives, but still managed to produce great works of fiction and non-fiction, thus inspiring women everywhere. Books have taught women to be badass and to teach them that this world is not just for men anymore. Nothing is reserved for men anymore. Everything is within women’s reach, if they just reach out and work hard for it.

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