A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon.
There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mother and there is the past and there is the future but most importantly there is the now, and everything that exists between them that has got them from one moment to the next. The now is where we find the golden glow where, for the briefest of moments, the sky rips open and we see what it is we are made of.
Tell me a story, he asked me.
And so, I began.
Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and how it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery.
This tender and lyrical memoir explores love in its many forms, through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too young, about the pain and confusion of first love, both platonic and romantic, and the joy and heartache of adult love. She writes movingly about the transcendent and transformative journey to motherhood and the similarly monumental path to self-love. 'We love as children, as friends, as parents and, yes, sometimes as sexual beings, and none of it is more important than the other because all of it shows us who we are.'
“How We Love” is heartfelt, funny, confessional, revelatory, compassionate - and essential reading. It shows us to ourselves in moments of unwavering truth and undeniable joy.
"An inspiring, unapologetic, feminist manifesto that highlights with great clarity and dispassion the global socio-economic disparities that continue to exist between men and women and suggests how we can set about changing the patriarchal status quo in order to build a fairer, more egalitarian society in which women can also flourish. It's time to change the way we all think about gender. And by doing so, create a brighter future for all humans."
Shirley Manson from Garbage on Fight Like a Girl
"There's a wonderful book by Clementine Ford that I advise every woman, and especially young women, to read called Fight Like a Girl."
Kate Beckinsale on Fight Like a Girl
"'Clementine Ford was put on this earth to give courage to the young girl inside all of us. This is an exciting, essential book from Australia's most fearless feminist writer.'"
Laurie Penny, author of Unspeakable Things on Fight Like a Girl
