PanThe Detroit Free PressHer book comes off as if she’s trying to portray herself as an Everywoman. She thinks she can pass herself off as just another one of our girlfriends struggling to succeed at work and at home ...to buy into her advice is to believe that all working women were ever missing in life was an inspirational quote to serve as a mission statement ... Syrupy quotes are plentiful in the 243-page self-help book ...Ivanka's biggest fumbles is using quotes out of context, co-opting their original intent and molding them anew to fit her own purposes ... Ivanka writes the book as if she's trying to use her platform of privilege in a way that will empower the rest of us... Because a book that begins with her preaching from a mountaintop as she hikes in Patagonia makes her disconnected to the Everywoman. She is not someone who has made it through the day-to-day challenges so many of us face.
