Seeing the author go from a sheltered child in a strict Hasidic background all of the limitations on knowledge and learning allowed her (particularly as a girl) to a self-confident adult who knows what she has missed and wants to teach her own children is freeing. My own family background is Lubavitche, but my grandmother gave it up before my uncle or father were born, and my grandmother didn't start living with us until she was in her late 70s (and I was a preteen or teenager), so we didn't talk much about what her background had been. This book was informative, and it reiterated my own values and doubt of doing things just because some religious authority thinks that you should!
Stages of her childhood growing up and into her marriage or enlightening and encouraging. It was clear from the beginning that she not have any room in her own soul and person for the restrictive Hasidic life that she was expected to continue and live, and her resistance from that is revolutionary and freeing.