Great Second Acts: In Praise of Older Women

191 Pages·2018·1.36 MB·English

by  Marlene Wagman-Geller

Great
Second
Acts
A M W -G
LSO BY ARLENE AGMAN ELLER

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Dedications
Great
Second
Acts

In Praise of Older Women

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 PROLOGUE
The Best Is Yet to Be
Chapter One
Rainbow (1860)
Chapter Two
Know It Was Not Easy (1894)
Chapter Three
The Female of the Species (1898)
Chapter Four
On and On (1893)
Chapter Five
Life as Theater (1896)
Chapter Six
The Only Stone Left Unturned (1905)
Chapter Seven
A Nobel / Noble Woman (1909)
Chapter Eight
I Am Unworthy (1910)
Chapter Nine
Chocolate (1912)
Chapter Ten
If Those Hats Could Talk (1912)
Chapter Eleven
The Bumblebee (1916 or 1918)
Chapter Twelve
Namaste (1918)