Marlene Wagman-Geller
Список книг автора Marlene Wagman-GellerGreat Second Acts
Antony said of Cleopatra, “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/Her infinite variety.” Shakespeare’s sentiment can be applied to the women profiled in Great Second Acts who refused to be defined by the dates on their birth certificates. Their lives are testimony that one can be feisty after fifty and to those who think otherwise, in the words of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “I dissent.” Marlene Wagman-Geller, author of ONCE AGAIN TO ZELDA, and BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN presents a fascinating collection of biographical vignettes of dozens of women of a certain age who have excelled, inspired and achieved. Written in an accessible narrative style, readers of all ages will enjoy Wagman-Geller’s entertaining storytelling prose of these remarkable women. An excellent gift for students, mothers, sisters or friends, GREAT SECOND ACTS will endure and delight.
• Fabulous Females featured:
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Anna Marie Robertson: (Grandma Moses) American painter
Golda Meyer (American president of Israel)
Margret Kuhn american founder of the Gray Panthers)
Rita Moreno (Puerto Rican/American actress)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (SCOTUS with the mostest)
Judy Schlein (American television judge)
Iris Apfel (American fashionista)
Mother Teresa (Albanian nun)
Ruth Handler (American entrepreneur)
Erica Jong (American author)
Sue Ellen Cooper (American founder of the Red Hat Society)
Dr. Ruth Westheimer (German sexologist)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (American author)
Julia child (American chef)
Jane Fonda (American actress)
Fabulous Female Firsts
The audience for this book will will include: Women ages 12 to 102: The volume would be an apropos gift for fodder in the modern day water coolers: emails, texts, and TwitterPopular History Readers of both genders.Viewers of The Biography Channel . Each chapter offers a biography of a riveting personality whose name, if not story, lives on.Trivia Lovers: The stories behind the names would be welcome fodderGift for teenage girls Selling points for this book will include: Good non-fiction choice for book clubs.Subject lends itself to good social media promotions.As the chapters are concise, and independent from one another, it is a good volume for coffee shops, hair salons, and waiting-rooms.
Still I Rise
Who are the great women leaders in history? Who are the women heroes who personify «girl power»? – Intrepid women heroes: When Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa’s brutal Robben Prison, he tirelessly turned to the poem Invictus . The inspirational verse by the Victorian William Ernest Henley, penned on the occasion of the amputation of his leg. Still I Rise takes its title from a work by Maya Angelou and it resonates with the same spirit of an unconquerable soul, a woman who is captain of her fate. Just as Invictus brought solace to generations so does the contemporary classic. Still I Rise embodies the strength of character of the inspiring women profiled. Each chapter will outline the fall and rise of great women heroes who smashed all obstacles, rather than let all obstacles smash them. The book offers hope to those undergoing their own Sisyphean struggles. Intrepid women heroes are the antithesis of the traditional damsels in distress; rather than waiting for the prince, they took salvation into their own hands. Celebrate girl power! Women leaders in history celebrated in this book include: • Madame C. J. Walker – first female American millionaire • Aung San Suu Kyi – Burma’s first lady of freedom • Betty Shabazz – civil rights activist • Nellie Sachs – Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize recipient • Selma Lagerlof – first woman Nobel Laureate • Fannie Lou Hamer – American voting rights activist • Bessie Coleman – first African-American female pilot • Wilma Rudolph – first woman to win three gold medals • Sonia Sotomayor – first Hispanic Supreme Court justice • Wangari Maathai – Nobel Prize winner • Winnifred Mandela – freedom fighter • Lois Wilson – founder of Al-Anon • Roxanne Quimby – co-founder of Burt’s Bees