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What We Know So Far: Wisdom Among Women in Their Own Words
What We Know So Far Wisdom Among Women in Their Own Words Author:Billie Jean King, Grace Paley, Matilda Cuomo, Beth Benatovich (Editor) "Could you tell me what it is to be an older woman in a world that values neither age nor wisdom?" This was the question posed by author Beth Venatovich. The women who responded to the question include Erica Jong, Billie Jean King, Sally Jessy Raphael, and Grace Slick, among others. One of the most moving and inspirational collections to be gath... more »ered in recent times, these interviews, in narrative form, detail the spiritual journeys of twenty-five women of wisdom all over the age of fifty. With astonishing courage and candor, this diverse, celebrated group of woman addresses such subjects as childhood, motherhood, sex, lovers, marriage, divorce, and menopause, and reveals pivotal moments of their lives, choices, losses, gains, and regrets.
This is a book about transformation and affirmation, about people who have struggled and triumphed, who have changed in some deep and remarkable way, women whose voices will help other women to locate the source of their own grace and power.« less