Aimed at advising and amusing girls age 12 and up, this collection includes quotations from 500 famous women, including suffragists, pioneers, politicians, moms, musicians, athletes, and actors. The quotes are grouped by categories, such as friendship, confidence, and creativity.
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- ISBN13: 9780316179560
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Perfect bedside table book “To think and to be fully alive are the same,” said sociologist and historian Hannah Arendt (1906 -1975). If that’s the case, this book will make you become “fully alive.” This quote is in the chapter titled “Thinking,” which joins others on goals, creativity, love and romance, adversity, sports, and many more. All of the quotes are written by women. Most are not so deep that you can’t figure them out; just profound enough for you to think or laugh. This book is a fun read. It’s perfect to flip through before you go to sleep, or gulp most of it down in one sitting.
Wit and Wisdom Win Your Heart I picked up a copy of The Girls’ Book of Wisdom for my eleven-year-old daughter at an author signing recently. I thought it had just the right look and feel: perky cover art with bright, girlish flowers, and a trio of preteens wearing a variety of expressions I’m relearning is the mood palette of adolescence: uncertainty, elation, challenge.
A conversation starter for mothers and daughters When my daughter read the first paragraph (not Chapter 1, just whatever page fell open while I was driving down the street), she immediately said, “Oh, wow, this is good! Well, I had her read it to me and this led to a very interesting conversation that was enlightening for both of us — for me because I found out what her thoughts were about how girls should act around boys — for her because she realized that I really had been her age once upon a time and had had similar feelings.