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When Women Were Dragons exposes a world that wants to keep women small—their lives and their prospects—and examines what happens when they rise en masse and take up the space they deserve

More by Majka Burhardt Gibbs Smith But magic is fickle—add attractionAn intense and emotional epistolary memoir by one of the world's top ice climbers, born at the confluence of motherhood, adventure, career, and marriage. As one of the worlds leading female professional rock and ice climbers, Burhardt and her husband led globe trotting, adventure seeking lives. When she learns that shes pregnantwith twinsBurhardt at first tries to justify her insistence on pursuing extreme risk in the face of responsibility. But she