On Women Turning 70 (Thorndike Senior Lifestyle) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

On Women Turning 70 is a celebration–of success, love, relationships, self–of life. Its sixteen intimate portraits of women in their seventies are a testament to women everywhere that life can and must be lived to its fullest. The artists, social activists, actors, scientists, journalists, academics, poets, and novelists we meet are wise, vital, and impertinent, and all are disarmingly honest. Through their stories, these vibrant women share a depth of wisdom and knowledge acquired after more than seventy years of experience and living. And they haven′t stopped living yet.Liz Smith, the acclaimed newspaperwoman, achieved her extraordinary success just as she was about to retire.Leah Friedman started work on her Ph.D. the year before she turned seventy.Harvard professor Elinor Gadon claims to have more energy than women forty years her junior.Betty Friedan, the mother of the feminist movement, keeps her spirit and curiosity alive by trying something new every week.Artist Betye Saar remarks on her colorfully dyed hair, "If I want my hair purple, it′s purple."Sociologist Lee Robbins fell in love and married again when she was seventy–five.Just as were her previous best–selling books on women turning forty, fifty, and sixty, this newest addition to the decade series of books from Cathleen Rountree is proof that aging is a passionate, powerful, and transformative process to be honored and celebrated. We are reminded that age is not about getting old, but about growing older–and seizing every moment in life. "We define age. Age does not define us."These inspiring personal portraits celebrate friAnds, mothers, grandmothers, neighbors, sisters, leaders, lovers–women turning seventy.If Marilyn Monroe were alive today . . .. . . she would have been seventy–two years old the summer during which I completed the writing of this book," begins visual artist, photographer, and writer Cathleen Rountree. Like her previous bestsellers, this in --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.