10 Memoirs By Female Authors That Will Inspire You To Do More

As women, we go out in the world every day to a life that is still quite different than our opposite sex. And while each has their own struggles and challenges, I often get a unique sense of empowerment when I hear personal stories by women.

Being an ardent reader since childhood, I have, like many others, found my merriment and solace in books. Biographies and autobiographies have always been popular in the literary world with readers hoping to take an insider look into the lives of famous personalities — to know how they ‘achieved it all’ or what challenges they faced. But memoirs have emerged to be a more popular format of storytelling in recent times. It is a more raw, honest and personal account of experiences through a time period in people’s lives.

Memoir writing can be therapeutic. Writing your way through a difficult period of life, or writing about the learning of a challenging life lesson can help put the experience into perspective.

And this is precisely why I think I like memoirs as a reader too. They teach lessons to authors as much as to their readers. So it is always intriguing to learn about the author’s life and the important bits they want to share from their lives to give a message about their life lessons.