"In Woman, Natalie Angier wields her poetic scalpel to explore female biology, and the result is awesome."
—Susan Love, professor of surgery, University of California at Los Angeles, and author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

"A delightfully mischievous yet serious book on the biology of the female body. Mischievous in that the science is interpreted in terms of modern feminism. It is a great read."
—Phillip Sharp, chairman, Biology Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Nobel Laureate

"Woman is wonderful. The sheer scope of physiological fact and theory is astonishing. All this material is artfully interwoven with history and literature. It is an extraordinary piece of work throughout."
—Cullen Murphy, author of The Word According to Eve

"Having occupied a woman's body for more than sixty years, I didn't think that any book would have much to teach me. How wrong I was!  Filled with much thought and good writing, this remarkable work is as fascinating as it is fresh."
—Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, ethologist and author of The Hidden Life of Dogs

"A tour de force, a wonderful, entertaining and informative book."
—The New York Times Book Review

"Angier's Woman is as good as it gets."
—Thomas Lynch, Los Angeles Times

"If Our Bodies, Ourselves has become the bible of women's bodies, let Woman: An Intimate Geography be our Shakespeare."
—Peggy Orenstein, Elle

"The chief manifesto of the new 'femaleist' thinking."
—Barbara Ehrenreich, Time