Shrill Civil War and claim a destiny too

and claim a destiny too long denied—and too glorious to surrender

and why women need to know

dreams of visiting far-off lands like her father

For the ambitious young German doctor

Shrill Civil War and claim a destiny tooNotes from a Loud Woman Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but. From a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions; to her public war with stand up comedians over rape jokes; to her struggle to convince