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We all have moments from childhood that were turning points -- people and events that molded our perceptions of ourselves and our lives. In Girls Like Us, 40 accomplished, influential women share these inspiring moments from their own childhoods and teenage years. Novelist Amy Tan explores the life of a young girl and her relationship to her mother in The Joy Luck Club; Faye Wattleton describes how a checkered and difficult childhood shaped her into the determined leader she is today; In Paula, Isabel Allende tells of her parents priceless gift in encouraging her to express her creativity. The book also includes photographs of some of the contributors at the age they appear in their stories, as well as brief biographies of each.
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40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry, and Song
Edited by Gina Misiroglu
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Copyright 1999 by New World Library
Introduction 1999 by Gina Misiroglu
Edited and compiled by Gina Misiroglu
Text design and typography: Mary Ann Casler
All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, or transmitted in any form, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or other, without written permission from the publisher.
Permissions acknowledgments on page 231 are an extension of the copyright page. The editors have made every attempt to secure permission to reprint all excerpts, and cannot take responsibility for any errors or omissions. They would be pleased to correct any errors in future editions of this book.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Girls like us: 40 extraordinary women celebrate girlhood in story, poetry, and song / edited by Gina Misiroglu. p. cm. ISBN 1-57731-084-5 (alk. paper) 1. Girls Literary collections. 2. Women Biography. I. Misiroglu, Gina Rene. PN6071.G53G571999 920.72 dc21 [B] 98-53428 CIP
First Printing, April 1999
ISBN 1-57731-084-5
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West
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For Glenis
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All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to [one's hometown] and answered there, heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood. Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Introduction
Gina Misiroglu
xix
Identity
Not a Pretty Girl
Ani DiFranco
2
Starting On the South Side
Georgie Anne Geyer
4
Bone Black
bell hooks
13
The Slap
Jane Shore
16
My Memory's Eye
Joan Baez
19
Paula
Isabel Allende
26
News for the Cafeteria
Sally Fisher
29
Daughter of Destiny
Benazir Bhutto
31
Discovering Science in My Backyard
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson
39
Learning America
Agate Nesaule
42
Black Patent Leather Shoes
Karen Mitchell
53
Girls Like Us
Jane Wagner & Tina DiFeliciantonio
55
What Means Switch
Gish Jen
61
Sugar-n-Spice, etc.
Rita Quillen
68
Family
Honest Lullaby
Joan Baez
72
Sweet Summer
Bebe Moore Campbell
75
The Voice from the Wall
Amy Tan
86
A Family Legacy
Marian Wright Edelman
93
In Praise of Imperfection
Rita Levi-Montalcini
98
Una mujer con compacion y gran fortaleza/A Women of Fortitude and Compassion
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