Tough Broad is an entertaining read. It's sure to inspire women to continue to enjoy the outdoors, create new neural pathways as they try new things, and enjoy the camaraderie of their sisters in adventure into their later years.

USA Today, "Outdoor Wires"

Paul's storytelling here goes deep, exploring the nuances of each woman's quest to understand her own pull to outdoor adventure. Tough Broad, she writes, 'is not about bravado, it is about bravery.' And it is as engrossing as it is inspiring.

BookPage

Paul makes a strong case for how a positive attitude about getting older can lead to a longer, healthier life … Women don't have to give in to age's changes; there's a big world out there to engage with and gain strength and pleasure from. Here's to being old, 'game,' and down for adventure.

Booklist

Caroline Paul has long been my North Star for what it is to be an adventurer in the world. I'd follow her anywhere.

Bonnie Tsui, author of Why We Swim and Sarah and the Big Wave

Oh, how I love-and need-this book! Paul's subjects don't deny or mask their years: they embrace who they are with gusto and vitality, seizing the opportunity to enjoy, to grow, to challenge themselves mentally and physically. And they remind us of a fundamental truth about women and aging: even as we become invisible to the culture, we become more visible-in the best of ways-to ourselves. I am here for you, tough broads!

Peggy Orenstein, New York Times bestselling author of Unravelling

This arc of a critical life blueprint comes from the toughest broad I know, Caroline Paul. You turn the last page of Tough Broad and promise yourself to spend every minute possible in the Great Outdoors. You are determined to test new horizons, to abandon your fears, to breathe your deepest breath. I'm 74. Caroline leads those of us of mature and wise ages to the very real hope that we all of us have much more to explore.

Diana Nyad, the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, at age 64