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You Don’t Need a Reason
Notes From a Barstool

For decades, women have been told they're free.

We can build careers, make our own money, get married, stay single, have children, skip children and buy our own damn flowers.

So why do so many of us still hesitate before walking into a restaurant alone, booking a solo trip, growing older out loud or doing something simply because it sounds like fun?

Because the cage never disappeared. It just changed metals.

In You Don't Need a Reason, Angel Cicerone takes readers from a single barstool in New York City to a much bigger realization: many women are still living by invisible rules they didn't even know they were following. Through funny stories, sharp observations and the occasional kick in the pants, she exposes the exhausting mental gymnastics women perform every day:

Is this selfish?
Should I be doing something more productive?
What will people think?

The answer turns out to be wonderfully simple.

You don't need permission to take up space.
You don't need permission to have fun.
You don't need permission to participate in your own life.

And you certainly don't need a reason.
You never did.