Great
Second
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Great
Second
Acts
In Praise of Older Women
Marlene Wagman-Geller
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Copyright © 2018 Marlene Wagman-Geller
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Great Second Acts: In Praise of Older Women
Library of Congress Cataloging
ISBN: (print) 978-1-63353-822-1 (ebook) 978-1-63353-823-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018956901
BISAC category code: BIO022000
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Printed in the United States of America
In praise of older women who say to old age what Madeleine told the tiger at the zoo: “Pooh, pooh.”
And to the praise of my women—my mother, Gilda Wagman, and my daughter, Jordanna Shyloh Geller.
“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
her infinite variety…”
William Shakespeare (1606)
Antony and Cleopatra
Table of
Contents
The Female of the Species (1898)
The Only Stone Left Unturned (1905)