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Aaker, Linda,--1948---Diaries, Women--United States--Diaries, Women lawyers--United States--Diaries.
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1994
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HQ1413.A24A3 1994eb
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305.4/0973
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Aaker, Linda,--1948---Diaries, Women--United States--Diaries, Women lawyers--United States--Diaries.
Page i
A Woman's Odyssey
Journals, 19761992
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A Woman's Odyssey
Journals, 19761992
Linda Aaker
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University of North Texas Press
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Printed in the United States of America
First Edition 1994
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The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aaker, Linda, 1948 A woman's odyssey : journals, 19761992 / Linda Aaker. p. cm. ISBN 0-929398-74-2 1. Aaker, Linda, 1948- Diaries. 2. WomenUnited States Diaries. 3. Women lawyersUnited StatesDiaries. I. Title. HQ1413.A24A31994 305.4'0973dc20 94-16038 CIP
Cover photograph by Ave Bonar Cover design by Amy Layton Title page art by Dana Adams
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For my soulmate, Bob
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Contents
Prologue
ix
Introduction
xi
Journal ILinda
1
Journal IIBob
145
Journal IIIEnter, Will
213
Epilogue
289
Page ix
Prologue
I didn't set out to write this particular book. In December of 1992, I gave an off-the-program reading from the Road Warrior section to women attending Leadership America in Seattle. Fran Vick from the University of North Texas Press listened. When she called me two weeks later to ask if I had any more journal-type writings, I was stunned. "Yes," I told her, "but they weren't written for third parties to read." They're not like the "Road Warriors" which I wrote to share with my law firm. My journals are more hormonal in nature, perhaps suitable for Harlequin, not a University Press. Besides, who would be interested in the life of a forty-four-year-old regular working mother? It sounded awfully narcissistic, and made me uncomfortable.
Fran persisted. She assigned me an encouraging and perceptive editor, Charlotte Wright. The result is this book. I'm grateful (I think) for her willingness to risk. One of the risks is telling this story in journal format, especially because I did not keep the journals consistently, and gaps appear. Also because truth, reality and memory sometimes become confused in retrospect. Perhaps the most difficult task has been to resist the urge to make me and my contemporaries, particularly in our early years, seem wiser, more mature, less egocentric. But the vast majority of this book was written contemporarily with the events chronicled, and has been left largely intact.
Reviewing the journals, I was often struck by how differently I remembered an event now from the way I wrote about it then. Also, when I came home from work, I didn't record my three best lawyer arguments for a motion for summary judgment, but
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rather, wrote of the personal decisions and searching that engaged so many of us in the 70s and 80s as we tried to find meaning in our lives, work and politics.
Most of this book actually occurred, but some names, dates and stories have been altered. The opinions, the reminiscences, are, of course, only one woman's version of her life.
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Introduction
My stepson asked the dreaded question: "Why would anyone want to publish the story of your life?" Daunted, I replied, "Well, I guess because I wrote it down. It's the story of a woman's life in a particular time of history, after birth control, before AIDS, when most of us were trying to figure out how to achieve and live with our personal freedom."
He reflected a moment. Understanding brightened his face. "Oh, like those diaries from the Civil War days!"
He's about the age I was when I began the journals. I wonder what his journey will be. I hope he writes it down.
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