What We Know So Far: Wisdom Among Women - Hardcover

King, Billie Jean; Paley, Grace; Cuomo, Matilda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312136188 ISBN 13: 9780312136185

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1995

Synopsis

One of the most moving and inspirational collections to be gathered 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 women addresses such subjects as childhood, motherhood, sex, lovers, marriage, divorce, and menopause, and reveals pivotal moments of their lives, choices, losses, gains, and regrets. In their own words, they tell us what it means to be a woman and a human being in twentieth-century America, to be wise with the wisdom of experience, not youth.
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. As Janine Vega says, "An older woman who has gone through love, childbearing, loss of love, divorce, widowhood, loss of the mothering function - this woman has an incredible power. We all have it, we were born with it, and now it's time to reclaim it. We have to reestablish our connection to the old ways. We have to look in the right place. We can either choose sadness, constriction, despair, or we can choose joy. Let us choose joy."

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Sisterhood is the connective tissue between these life stories told by women over 50 who, in their struggles and triumphs, have made their marks. Among the celebrities are Billie Jean King, Judith Crist, Eartha Kitt and Matilda Cuomo, who reflect on maturity and their personal experiences in the framework of older women in American culture. Some of the stories are harrowing depictions of women's liberation from injustice and abuse; others are deeply felt expressions of aspirations and fulfillment. The 25 women heard here celebrate not only having passed the crisis of confidence with which many women approach their 40s and 50s but also having been empowered by the experience. As Erica Jong proclaims, "I'm growing into my face." Benatovich is an editor at Oracle Press. Illustrations.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0312136188
• ISBN 13: 9780312136185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252
• Editor: Benatovich Beth