Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith

BATB score: 4/10 🙄

Best as: proof that every well-known-enough person should write an autobiography as one’s passive income and legacy

Best for: when who you marry out-shadowed you

Best to: “separated but not divorced; we ride together, we die together, bad marriage for life” so what’s an entanglement?

Best quotes: “Fame might get you company, but it ain’t always good company. And it’s certainly not real love or real respect.”

“If you have a blowup with someone you really cherish, do not play the game of waiting for the other person to get wise.”

“For a mother, a daughter is a powerful and sometimes overwhelming mirror that can reflect back to her the depths of her inner world, where unhealed wounds linger.”

“The age-old tropes that portrays women who marry successful men as doing so for their entire validation. She dares not try to have an identity beyond who she is in service of his identity.”

“All of us have chapters in our lives we wish we could erase. Yet those are the chapters in which we slayed our most menacing dragons; those are the moments that, if they didn’t kill us, made us stronger.”