This is a guideline for every female who feels a little lost in terms of dealing with life. I read and loved the first edition, giving it as presents to all my female friends, and now I am giving this new edition. This is NOT a guide on bullying those about a woman, but a guide for a woman taking charge of her own life. Significant quotes from role models, excellent cartoon depictions, and a breezy style charge with the authority every woman needs to be the best her she can.

I am shocked to see people who seem to be professionals in the social services area giving this book a rating higher than a single star. This sexist garbage is bound to lead any woman that follows it's adolescent advice to have friction with any normal person she comes into contact with. What the author ignores is that many men also have problems asserting themselves. Far more useful for humanity are self-help books that help people of both genders with their assertiveness deficiencies. Turning the whole area into yet another feminist battleground shows the author to have ulterior motives that go beyond just helping women - it's a demeaning attack on men at the same time, and will be vigorously opposed by all those fighting for true equality. No woman, or man for that matter, who follows the advice of this book will end up a happy person, more likely they'll end up one of those kinds of people that all normal men and women like to avoid - the [...]. This book conflicts with all the basic tenets of human spirituality and goodness, and one day will be looked back on as one of the many women's self-help books that helped retard women's spirituality. Don't waste your money on this book, at least not until it becomes cheaper than toilet paper.

You have nothing to lose but your wimpiness....
For eons females have been demeaned and it is often with words that refer to our weakness, i.e. pussies, wimps,etc.
Since feminism, women are embracing the idea that it is possible to be a bitch in a positive, empowering way. As a therapist, I have encouraged girls and women to think of rough, arrogant females as Bitches with a capital B, or in a negative way because rough arrogance isn't liberation.
But accepting the word bitch as a positive may mean that because you stand up for yourself, or get angry at what you should and when you should brings you this epithet, then own it. That way, we can be proud of being strong, even if it is threatening to some. In my opinion the people who are threatened by it are people, more males, who only feel powerful by expecting and keeping females weak.
Getting in touch with your inner bitch helps you find your voice and your stronger self.

Funny book and makes a good point but you get it after one chapter... it was slightly repetitive.

This is a really fun read, but to be honest I preferred her Inner Bitch Guide to Relationships. Whenever I get confused in a relationship, I draw a hot bath and read a chapter or two out of that book. It always reminds me who I am. This book is a good addition to it though, but I think I had already tapped into my inner bitch before I read it.