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"Women "

March 11, 2013

5 Pieces of Leadership Advice for Women at Work: Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead offers invaluable career advice for women in the workplace.

July 27, 2012

Nora Ephron’s I Feel Bad About My Neck: All Wit and All Honesty

Nora Ephron makes you laugh knowingly in her collection of revealing essays on aging, love, and dealing with what life chucks at us. A treat to read, I Feel Bad About My Neck gives another bit of insight into a remarkable woman.

May 31, 2012

What Is It With Women and Shoes? Rachelle Bergstein’s Women from the Ankle Down

When I started researching my book, Women From the Ankle Down, back in 2008, I attended a “shoe party” hosted at a fantastic but prohibitively expensive store that soon became a casualty of the recession.

October 28, 2011

Tamora Pierce: Books of — and for — Strong, Young Women

As a child, I was drawn to fantasy fiction from the get-go. To me, reading a book was an adventure in fantasy already — why not make that adventure as fantastical as possible? As I got older and moved to young-adult fantasy, however, I grew frustrated by the lack of strong female characters. And then came Tamora Pierce.