A Woman's Worth - Book Review

A Woman's Worth
Marianne Williamson
Ballantine Books

This book is much shorter than her other book, "A Return to Love."  Overall, and as can be expected, this book offers encouragement to women and affirms to them that yes, they are worth something.  It focused a lot on relationships to one's father (not the easiest thing for me to read, given everything that happened over the last several months) and God.

Yes, I'm not making any bones about it, it's quite God oriented.  The author seems to try not shoving God down the reader's throat, but the way she presents it, there is no way to get around this, which will be a big turn-off for some readers.  One might reinterpret in their minds, but I'd still say this is an extremely heavily Christian based book.

If you can get past the many references to God and look at the psychology, it's interesting, though I find part of myself balking at passages that could be used to support all women returning to the home if taken out of context.

I'd like to say it's a good book, there is going to be at least one person out there that may want to come over and smack me with it and several other books (which I'd read probably after getting an ice pack), for not saying it's a great book.  For some readers, it will be a great book.  I can only say that it's an ok book.

Read it when you're feeling down, it will probably help if inspirational writing helps break your funk.  If New Age feel things get your dander up and send out you to roar, then be warned.  Either way, remember to take everything with some salt.

I don't even remember when or why I got this book...  Very probably was one of the required reading materials for the Women's Sociology class I tried to take while in college (and did not finish, only college class I've done that with, and as I recall I was rather large with Athena's high-risk pregnancy and quite unmotivated at the time).

side note / Personal opinion: Not worth the $11 for 143 pages that I paid (very much not a bargan bin book, no repricing marks or stickers...).