"Reminiscent of Emma Goldman's Living My Life, this second volume of Dunbar-Ortiz's autobiography describes a feminist scholar's political coming of age during the turbulent '60s....A sequel to Red Dirt ... " - Chris Dodge, Utne Reader

"It's impossible to finish reading this compelling memoir and not think, 'What a totally amazing person!' The book traces the complex, ever-deepening evolution of one feminist determined to help create a better society. But it is also about an entire historical era when people were struggling for social justice around the world–and very much so in the U.S. Against such a background, we see this woman become a movement leader, unique in her rural working-class, 'Okie' origin, fighting injustice with a powerful mind and spirit."
- Elizabeth (Betita) Martínez, Chicana activist and author

"...there is no better experiential account of what propelled her (and my) generation of activists into an 'irreversible direction and life-time commitment,' as she termed it at a recent San Francisco book reading . . . . We are transported into the cultural-political ferment of Marxist study groups, international solidarity campaigns, black liberation rallies, rock concerts and be-ins, antiwar demonstrations, a trip to Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade and underground cells. 'I felt like the luckiest person in the world,' she concludes. 'I was a part of history in the making.'" - Tony Platt, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Outlaw Woman tells how Dunbar-Ortiz became a political radical during the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the women's liberation movement. Moving to the Bay Area in 1964, she attended San Francisco State University, where activists from the Congress for Racial Equality were recruiting for the Mississippi Freedom Rides and Malcolm X spoke." - Christina Gerhardt, The San Francisco Chronicle

"An illuminating look at the inside of political organizing within the radical feminist and Socialist movements during that tumultuous and violent period." - Library Journal

"Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz tells the story of her growth as a woman whose heritage and history had been hidden, cut off. She speaks honestly about conflicts and uncertainties as she moves forward through the 1960s. She explains her growth and her coming of age as a woman of conscience and political action through the lens of the unofficial history of those who struggled. This book contributes to the dynamic of people's history from a woman's point of view." -Marilyn Buck

"I stand in awe of Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. She is a survivor, capital 'S'. She was there in the middle of it all." -Madonna Gilbert Thunder Hawk, AIM leader

"Outlaw Woman is the story, bold and honest, of Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz' extraordinary journey—political, ideological, personal–through the Sixties and early Seventies. Coming from a working-class upbringing in Oklahoma, she moved in and out of every important feminist and revolutionary movement of that remarkable time in American history. She illuminates all those experiences with unsparing scrutiny and emerges with a fierce, admirable independence."
-Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

"This is a wonderfully evocative account of a remarkable life: harrowing and joyful, searching and achieving, a life that brings together threads of a complex, troubled, and rewarding era, a life that really made a difference to moving towards a more humane and just world." -Noam Chomsky

"Outlaw Woman is a memoir of an extraordinary time in U.S. history, and it is one that doesn't get bogged down in accusation, scandal, or idealistic reverie. The roots of contemporary feminism are here. The United States war in Vietnam is here. Native American and African American struggles are here.. And other struggles that shaped generations of U.S. revolutionaries–Cuba, South Africa, Chile, Nicaragua. Roxanne's journey through some of the era's most important movements and events allows us to revisit those times—whatever our own position, then or now. Outlaw Woman is stark, unrelenting, honest, and evocative–of a time when a diverse subculture cared, a time that should make us proud."
-Margaret Randall, author of Sandino's Daughters and Coming Up For Air

"Roxanne Dunbar gives the lie to the myth that all New Left activists of the '60s and '70s were spoiled children of the suburban middle classes. Read this book to find out what are the roots of radicalism."
-Mark Rudd, SDS, Columbia University strike leader

"Dunbar-Ortiz takes us into the heart of the women's liberation movement, grassroots anti-war organizing and solidarity work with third world liberation struggles around the world and in the U.S. Outlaw Woman is a fierce and honest narrative about organizing, resistance, and a passion to remake the world."
-Chris Crass, Food Not Bombs