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I will admit that I unfairly judged this book before reading it. I thought it might be just another super affluent white woman talking to other super affluent white women about "lifting each other up".

This book is not that at all.

I reserved the Libby audiobook from my library and Melinda Gates is a great narrator! The Moment of Lift is a vivid way to describe what happens when women are lifted up because everyone benefits from lifting up a woman. This book dives into the beautiful and heartbreaking stories of women all over the world, using data analysis to explore areas where the moment of lift has occurred in villages, urban cities, and marriages. My favorite part of the book is at the end and I think it summarizes the theme of the book well:

"Every society says its outsiders are the problem. But the outsiders are not the problem. The urge to create outsiders is the problem."
-Melinda Gates

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