Journey to Autonomy

“Louise Noun has researched and written about the struggle for women's suffrage for many years. Now with Journey to Autonomy, she eloquently details her own struggle.”—Senator Tom Harkin

“This is one woman’s story told without embellishment in the classic, honest, straightforward style that is the author’s hallmark. But Journey to Autonomy is so much more. It is a moving and historically significant account of self-revelation and personal growth.”—Mary Louise Smith

“A deeply interesting and very personal account of what molded the life of a great person and galvanized her energy into a lifelong struggle for the rights of all people, but more especially the rights and equality of women.”—Harold E. Hughes

“Louise has made yet another important contribution to the evolution of women by her willingness to share these intensely personal—sometimes painful—thoughts and feelings in such an honest fashion.”—Bonnie Campbell

“It is a remarkable book: at one level the story of one of Iowa’s great ladies, at another the history of twentieth-century feminism in the state. Ms. Noun’s life reads like something out of Ibsen. It should be titled ‘Up from Privilege.’”—Donald Kaul