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Letters to My Younger Self
Broadway
April 2006
208 pages ISBN: 0767917898 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
If you could send a letter back through time to your
younger self, what would the letter say?
In this
moving collection, forty-one famous women write
letters to the women they once were, filled with advice and
insights they wish they had had when they were younger.
Today show correspondent Ann Curry writes to
herself as a rookie reporter in her first job, telling
herself not to change so much to fit in, urging her young
self, "It is time to be bold about who you really are."
Country music superstar Lee Ann Womack reflects on the
stressed-out year spent recording her first album and
encourages her younger self to enjoy the moment, not just
the end result. "Your hair matters far, far less than you
think," is the wry advice that begins the letter bestselling
mystery writer Lisa Scottoline pens to her twenty-year old
self. And Maya Angelou, leaving home at seventeen with a
newborn baby in her arms, assures herself she will
succeed on her own, even if she does return home every now
and then.
These remarkable women are joined by
Madeleine Albright, Queen Noor of Jordan, Cokie Roberts,
Naomi Wolf, Eileen Fisher, Jane Kaczmarek, Olympia Dukakis,
Macy Gray, and many others. Their letters contain rare
glimpses into the personal lives of extraordinary women and
powerful wisdom that readers will treasure.
Wisdom
from What I Know Now "Don't let anybody raise
you. You've been raised." --Maya Angelou "Try more
things. Cross more lines." --Breena
Clarke "Learn how
to celebrate." --Olympia Dukakis "You don't
have to be
afraid of living alone." --Eileen Fisher "Please
yourself first-everything else follows." --Macy
Gray "Don't be so quick to dismiss another human
being." --Barbara Boxer "Work should not be work." --Mary Matalin "You can leave the work world--and
come
back on your own terms." --Cokie
Roberts "Laundry will wait very patiently." --Nora Roberts "Your hair matters far, far less than you think" --Lisa
Scottoline "Speak the truth but ride a fast horse." --Kitty Kelley
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