Clementine Ford - How We Love: Notes on a Life

PRAISE FOR

HOW WE LOVE

An act of exquisite beauty, generosity and vulnerability from a woman who can also throw a fridge into the back of a car, all by herself. Big-hearted, fierce, tender, and so full of hope, just when we need it.

Clare Bowditch, author of My Own Kind of Girl

Gorgeous, immersive and deeply reassuring, How We Love reminded me once again how valuable and precious it is to find the words for the ways we love, and to share them.

Sofie Laguna, author of Infinite Splendours

Sensitive, soulful and utterly captivating. How We Love manages to be both beautiful and brutal, at the same time. Clem gives us words for the loves weve never been able to speak about before.

Jamila Rizvi, author and editor of The Motherhood

Everything in How We Love pierced me as I readthe humour, the honesty, the blistering detail. I laughed, and my heart ached How We Love balances the specific and the universal so beautifully. It illuminates Clementines experience, and sheds a light on us all.

Alice Robinson, author of The Glad Shout

A wise, tender and generous book about the agonies and ecstasies of being a human who dares to love. At once intimate and universal, How We Love is an ode to opening our hearts, again and againdespite knowing that pain awaits. Ford reminds us that, even when they hurt, our feelings are the very meat of life.

Yves Rees, author of All About Yves: Notes from a Transition

How can stories from someone elses life make you feel so seen, so known, so bloody tender towards your younger self? Thats the power of great memoir and How We Love is glorious. Sparkling prose, heart-in-mouth honesty and Clementines trademark wit, warmth and sincerity. I laughed, I cried, I cringed, I forgave myself a hundred times. Youll fall in love with Clementine just a little bit more.

Karen Pickering, writer and feminist communicator

PRAISE FOR

FIGHT LIKE A GIRL

Brilliant it makes me want to chain myself to a barricade.

Tracey Spicer, Sun-Herald

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 Australias most fearless feminist writer.

Laurie Penny, author of Unspeakable Things

Im going to come right out and say it: Clementine Fords Fight Like A Girl should be required reading for all young women in Australia Reading Fight Like A Girl reignited my feminist fire, my feelings of frustration Yes, Fight Like A Girl will make you angry. It will make you feel uncomfortable. But, ultimately, it will inspire you to create change.

Marie Claire

Clementine is furious and scathing when she needs to be, yet compassionate and encouraging every moment she can be. This book is both a confirmation of sisterhood and a call to arms.

Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull and Who Gets to Be Smart?

Fight Like A Girl should be required reading for every young man and woman, a brave manifesto for gender equality, harm minimisation and self-care.

Clare Wright, The Australian

Australian feminist Clementine Ford is never one to shy away from combat or controversy, and her first book, Fight Like A Girl, is a fierce and personal call to arms in the campaign for womens rights Fight Like A Girl is an important book for Australians young and old, and for burgeoning activists.

Stephanie Van Schilt, The Australian

A potent mix of memoir and manifesto, equal parts fierce and friendly; an intimate, witty self-portrait and a rousing call to arms for women everywhere to know their rage, own it, wear it and channel it into fighting for change.

Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Canberra Times

Fight Like A Girl is fuelled by Fords clear-eyed defiance and refusal to compromise, and by her powerful combination of personal testimony and political polemic. In the vein of Caitlin Morans How to be a Woman or Roxane Gays Bad Feminist.

Books + Publishing

Brutally honest and unapologetic Ford tackles societys double standards and contradictions, tackling these head-on like a fearless heroine Fight Like A Girl is a feisty call to arms for modern women Keep on fighting the good fight, Clem, so that one day we may all enter the ring with you.

AU Review

Clementine Ford was one of my very first formative feminist influences, initiating me into the world of feminism. She is someone whose tenacity and fearlessness I admire greatly, and she helped me along the path to becoming the humourless, bitter, lesbian feminist I am today.

Rebecca Shaw, writer, SBS and

A beautiful, bittersweet journey to self-acceptance. A companion to all those still seeking to forge a sense of self. Clementine Ford has always been a bastion of shamelessness in a world that would rather see her defeated, and her book is a testament to the commitment she has to living fearlessly. I am comforted daily by her presence in the lives of young Australians, and Im beyond thrilled that we now have her unique brilliance committed to these pages.

Caitlin Stasey, actor and creator of Herself.com

As a feminist writer, Clementine has placed great importance on establishing and maintaining a strong connection with the womens services sector, and to those who do the work supporting women experiencing male violence. The womens services sector places great value on Clementines writing, and that the relationship is mutually beneficial really speaks to Clementines values. The past few years have been a watershed for the elimination of violence against women in Australia, and Clementines voice has not only been instrumental, but has taken up a mainstream space that has aligned with and reinforced the efforts of the womens services sector. We love her for that.

Ada Conroy, family violence worker

Its a call to action but, more importantly, its a call to reason. A must-read for all women.

Fashion Journal

PRAISE FOR

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

Ford draws important links between our conditioning of gender in young children and the consequences for both men and women as they grow older This book enables us to take a serious look at how we live. It asks us to demand and make a different kind of world for boys to grow up in.

Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

Clementine Ford is fiercely unflinching in her examination of toxic masculinityplus her sharp insights and wry humour make Boys Will Be Boys a must read.

Booktopia

Boys Will Be Boys is an impassioned call for societal change from a writer who has become a stand-out voice of her generation (and has the trolls to prove it) and an act of devotion from a mother to her son.

Readings

Boys Will Be Boys is full of the same white-hot fury, in-depth research, and wry humour that made Fords previous book so compulsively readable, and will likely continue to piss off her detractors A truly vital piece of social commentary from Australias fiercest feminist should be shoved into the hands of every person you know. Clementine Ford spits truths about toxic masculinity and the dangers of the patriarchy with passion and a wonderfully wry sense of humour. Read it, learn from it, and share itthis book is absolute GOLD!

AU Review

Clementine Ford is a writer and broadcaster living on Wurundjeri country in Naarm/Melbourne.