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These are the works scanned into the app. Nothing here is invented advice — each aspect, routine and quiz answer points back to one of these.
Stage of life
22 – 34 — Weaving: work, money, love, fertility, building a life of your own.
The Book of the City of Ladies
Christine de Pizan · 1405
Medieval French
A woman builds her worth from evidence, not from what has been said about her.Read the full entry →
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf · 1929
Modern English
Money and a door that locks are not luxuries. They are the conditions of a mind.Read the full entry →
The Pillow Book
Sei Shōnagon · c. 1002
Heian Japan
Attention to the small and the beautiful is a discipline, not a frivolity.Read the full entry →
The Tale of Genji
Murasaki Shikibu · c. 1010
Heian Japan
The inner life of women, recorded in full, becomes the first great novel.Read the full entry →
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929
Austrian / Lyric
Live the questions. Solitude is not exile; it is where a self is made.Read the full entry →
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estés · 1992
Modern West / Jungian
The wild, instinctive self can be buried by niceness — and it can be dug back up.Read the full entry →
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius · c. 180 AD
Roman / Stoic
You govern yourself first. Other people's opinions are weather, not law.Read the full entry →
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir · 1949
French / Existentialist
Sequenced for a later stage of life. Set an older stage above to open its reading.
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Revelations of Divine Love
Julian of Norwich · c. 1395
English / Mystic
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The Interior Castle
Teresa of Ávila · 1577
Spanish / Mystic
Sequenced for a later stage of life. Set an older stage above to open its reading.
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The Tao Te Ching
Laozi · c. 400 BC
Chinese / Taoist
Water yields and wins. Softness is a strategy, not a surrender.Read the full entry →
Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa (attrib.) · c. 200 BC
Indian / Vedic
Act for the work's sake, unattached to applause or result.Read the full entry →
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958
Igbo / West African
Sequenced for a later stage of life. Set an older stage above to open its reading.
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So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ · 1979
Senegalese
Friendship between women outlasts marriage, betrayal and grief.Read the full entry →
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · 1969
African American
Voice is recovered, not granted. Speaking is the end of a long private work.Read the full entry →
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
African American
A woman goes to the horizon herself rather than waiting for it to be brought to her.Read the full entry →
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl · 1946
Austrian / Jewish
Suffering becomes bearable when it is carried for a reason you chose.Read the full entry →
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank · 1947
Dutch / Jewish
An interior life kept intact under pressure is itself an act of resistance.Read the full entry →
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013
Potawatomi / Ecological
Sequenced for a later stage of life. Set an older stage above to open its reading.
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Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh · 1955
Modern American
Sequenced for a later stage of life. Set an older stage above to open its reading.
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Attached
Levine & Heller · 2010
Modern / Attachment Science
Attachment style predicts more of your love life than chemistry does — and it can change.Read the full entry →
Come As You Are
Emily Nagoski · 2015
Modern / Sexual Health
Desire is contextual, not broken. Stress is the most common brake.Read the full entry →
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker · 2017
Modern / Health Science
Sleep sits under hormones, mood, skin, memory and grit. Short sleep is not stamina.Read the full entry →
Roar
Stacy Sims · 2016
Modern / Female Physiology
Women are not small men. Train and eat with your cycle, not against it.Read the full entry →
Period Repair Manual
Lara Briden · 2015
Modern / Women's Medicine
Your cycle is a monthly report card on hormones, thyroid, iron and stress.Read the full entry →
The Menopause Manifesto
Jen Gunter · 2021
Modern / Women's Medicine
Sequenced for a later stage of life. Set an older stage above to open its reading.
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Burnout
Emily & Amelia Nagoski · 2019
Modern / Stress Science
Completing the stress cycle is a physical act, not a mindset.Read the full entry →
Clever Girl Finance
Bola Sokunbi · 2019
Modern American / Finance
Budget, emergency fund, debt payoff — the unglamorous scaffolding of independence.Read the full entry →
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason · 1926
Modern American / Parable
A tenth of everything you earn is not yours to spend. It is the seed of your freedom.Read the full entry →
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel · 2020
Modern / Behavioural Finance
Sequenced for a later stage of life. Set an older stage above to open its reading.
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