Anne Bradstreet: “I know what it is to be a woman told to stay quiet. This Dickinson, she feels the same. They shut her in by slamming the door in her face, but her mind would not let them stop her. She wrote about the brain being wider than the sky, and I believe her. Her poems are an open door. She turned her small room into a whole world. Any woman who has ever been silenced should read her work. I give my genuine praise and appreciation as I can relate to her words.”

Donna Pinciotti: “Okay, so this Emily Dickinson chick? Total kindred spirit. I’m serious. Everyone’s trying to tell her what to do—her shitbag dad, the whole town of Amherst, probably some boring dudes in suits who think women belong in the kitchen or whatever. They want to shut her up and keep her in this tiny little box, like, ‘Just be quiet and sew something.’ And she’s just like, ‘No way. Not happening!’ She’s got all these thoughts flooding her brain, like non-stop, to the point where it’s probably overwhelming, ya know? And she can’t just ignore that. So she writes—me too girl.  Her poems are basically her saying, ‘I’ll make my own freedom, thanks, and it’s gonna be way bigger than anything you’ve got.’ She turns her room into her own world. It’s smart, it’s fierce, a little weird with all the dashes and crazy capitalization, and honestly? Super relatable. Any girl who’s ever felt trapped or told to be smaller needs to read this. You won’t regret it. TRUST me.”