"This is such a beautiful gathering of voices, such a beautiful gathering of poems. If I had had this book when I was younger, it would have enriched my life. But I’m so incredibly grateful I get to read it, and be changed by it, now." - Ross Gay, author of the New York Times bestseller The Book of Delights
"This collection feels like a gift, a pep talk, a shoulder to cry on, and, most of all, a mirror that will captivate its audience. A helpful companion for young women navigating a spectrum of complex emotions" - Kirkus Reviews
"This empowering assemblage of poems by an inclusive group of women writers offers insight and community to readers navigating adolescence... Whitney’s introduction offers a message that permeates the volume’s entirety: “We are already enough.” - Publishers Weekly
"Whitney, a poet, author, and essayist, brings diversity to the forefront, with poems presenting a refreshingly inclusive array of perspectives, including from trans and nonbinary poets..." - Booklist
"The poems in this gorgeous book glitter like stars, like sequins, like a blade. And they constitute an invitation to our girls to be free - to be whole. How breathtakingly precious that is! How devastatingly rare. I am reminded (again and again) that art is here to save our lives." - Catherine Newman, author of How to Be a Person
"This book is as beautiful to look at as it is to read, and full of important messages that every girl should hear.” - Lisa Selin Davis, author of Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare to be Different
"What company this book would have provided me if I could have had it when I was young! The poems sing and celebrate, mourn and commiserate, question and assert. The smartly edited collection displays the tremendous vitality and diversity of women poets today and offers a soulful read for “girls becoming themselves” at any age, even my own." - Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs