Soraya Chemaly Award-Winning Journalist, Activist, Feminist

Praise for All We Want is Everything:

Weaving a tapestry of personal experience and data-driven evidence, Chemaly has forged a compendium on male supremacy that is accessible — and essential — to all readers wanting to make sense of seemingly intractable issues that stymie gender equality.”?
—Marci Bianco, author of Breaking Free

With the sharp insight and wit that made her previous work, Rage Becomes Her, a rallying cry for women’s anger, Chemaly now turns her attention to the urgent need for collective action and systemic change. Both incisive and hopeful, she offers readers practical tools to recognize, name, and challenge the status quo. She not only diagnoses the problem, but inspires with a vision for a more equitable future for all genders.”?
—Shannon Watts, author of Fight Like A Mother, founder of Moms Demand Action

Chemaly says what too many commentators are afraid to say. The ‘male loneliness crisis,’ in her interpretation, is actually straight men having ‘an equality crisis.’ The solution, then, is not to back off of feminism, but to see it through to its logical conclusion: true liberation for anyone of any gender. This the roadmap to realizing that vision.”
—Anna Louie Sussman, journalist

Praise for Rage Becomes Her:

At turns enraging, comforting and inspiring, Rage Becomes Her is a must read.” —NPR (Best Book of 2018)

In this powerful essay collection, Chemaly draws on interviews, research, and personal experience to examine why patriarchal Western cultures continue to demand that women silence their rage …Intelligent and keenly observed, this is a bracingly liberating call for the right of women to own their anger and use it to benefit a society ‘at risk for authoritarianism.’ Important, timely, necessary reading.” —Kirkus (starred review)

How many women cry when angry because we’ve held it in for so long? How many discover that anger turned inward is depression? Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her will be good for women, and for the future of this country. After all, women have a lot to be angry about.”
—Gloria Steinem

Rage is a battle-cry of a book, drawing on all corner of contemporary life, from media to education and medicine. She takes the reader through a woman’s life, from infancy to adulthood, highlighting the systemic ways female rage is suppressed, diverted or minimalised. And she provides scientific evidence to back up her ideas. If life as a modern woman is maddening, then Rage is a sanity-restorer.”
—The Guardian

If you think Senator Warren persisted, meet Soraya Chemaly and her latest book, Rage Becomes Her…Men should read the book and the women in their lives must insist that they do so…Chemaly’s book is giving voice to how women’s voices have been suppressed. This book needs to be read.”
—New York Journal of Books

In this breathtakingly (or maybe I should say breathgivingly…because it will literally make you feel like you can breathe again) liberating book, Soraya Chemaly breaks down the myriad ways that women are silenced, ignored, disrespected, dehumanized, and generally spat upon by the patriarchy…It’s one of the best feminist books I’ve ever read and the first I will recommend the next time someone asks me why I’m a feminist.”
—BookRiot

Chemaly distills years of award-winning work in writing and activism into a single profound volume on women’s rage and the complex systems of social control that silence the rage of women and weaponize the rage of men.”
—Electric Literature

A necessary delve into a heated subject, Rage Becomes Her challenges the all-too-common perception of having an anger “problem,” and works to demystify women’s anger, transforming the difficult emotion into one that’s as coveted as happiness.”
—BUST Magazine

Provocative… In Rage Becomes Her, Chemelay uses scientific research, in-depth interviews, and personal experiences to investigate why cultures around the world expect and even force women to keep their anger silent and their rage hidden. But more than that, she makes a case for why that pattern finally needs to be broken.”
—Bustle

[A] provocative analysis… Calling for a ‘wise anger’ that can dismantle pervasive sexism and create a fundamentally democratic society, the book makes a persuasive case that angry women can achieve, not vengeance, but change.”
—Publishers Weekly

Women’s anger is the last taboo. In this provocative examination of the forbidden, hidden emotion, Soraya Chemaly asks ‘What do we lose, personally and as a society, by not listening to women’s anger or respecting it?’ Answer: the true voice of half of humanity. If you want to understand why #Metoo has swept the country, you need to read this book.”
—Katha Pollitt, poet and columnist, author of Learning To Drive

Soraya Chemaly turns her rigorous compassion, scrupulous fairness, and microscopically sharp clarity of thought on our culture’s forced suppression of female anger…Our world will never be the same. And, yes, that’s a threat.”
—Lindy West, New York Times bestselling author of Shrill

Soraya Chemaly issues a powerful clarion call to women to speak our truth and own our righteous anger during a time when nothing less than our rage will set us free.”
—Jamia Wilson, Executive Director and Publisher, The Feminist Press

With every chapter I felt more power flooding in where fear and shame once were. This is a book that could change your life, and the world.”
—Jaclyn Friedman, author of Unscrewed

Men should read this book to understand women; women should read this book to understand themselves. Rage Becomes Her could save your life.”
—Robin Morgan, author