“Where was this book when I was 12 or 16 or 20? Deliciously ironic, reliably brainy, steadily informative, writer Barbara Holland’s spirited assemblage of brief biographies fills gaps in women’s history.
“Ignoring Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, and other women who ‘mothered their way into history’ with soup and bandages, Holland focuses on warriors and seekers, grandstanders, wayfarers, exiles and outlaws and women who sometimes had to conceal themselves as men to do what they wanted to do.
“…a jubilant hop, skip and jump toward rectifying the omission of women from the historical record.”
--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Holland, like some of her outlaw heroines, gives herself free rein to speak her mind and break the rules… Luxuriating in tales worth retelling…”
--Washington Post
“With humor and style, Holland reveals lives fraught with excitement, danger, passion, intrigue, crime, and, often deception”
--USA Today
