Lessons in Living
From
Extraordinary Women
a bi-weekly inspirational column
by Beverly
West and Nancy Peake
Since time began women have been called upon to
provide vast stores of quiet strength, faithful endurance, and
sometimes downright unmitigated gall. Women have braved battles,
saved the souls of nations, scaled mountains, traveled in outer
space, and through it all, still managed to get meals on the table.
They have faced great personal hardship and endured; they have stayed
true to their beliefs even when those beliefs cost them their lives;
they have risen from the ashes, and through a thousand small, caring
gestures, have provided the world with a solid and necessary
foundation of unconditional love.
Lessons in Living From Extraordinary Women uses
specific anecdotes rather than vague affirmations to teach us that
great things can happen in our everyday lives if we, like the
extraordinary women of character in the column, have the courage to
do what we think is right. We hope that these lessons in living from
extraordinary women who rejected the limitations of their time and
circumstance, and insisted upon defining themselves, will inspire
readers to transcend the limitations of their own lives and realize
their own, extraordinary individuality and internal strength of
character.
We would love to hear your comments about
extraordinary women who have influenced your lives for the better.
Please mail us at Luvdanny@aol.com
The women, and their lessons
The authors
Beverly and Nancy are freelance authors living in
Manhattan.
Their books include; Meditations for Men Who Do
Next to Nothing and Would Like to Do Even Less (Warner Books, 1994),
currently in its fourth printing; How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time
on Five Dollars a Day (Adams Media, 1995) featured on Talk Soup;
Frankly
Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn, Classic Romances Retold, (HarperCollins, 1996); Cocktail
Nation, Rituals of Release for the Jaded and Refined which is out now from Berkley Books, and Cinematherapy; A
Girls' Guide to Movies For Every Mood which is due out next spring
from Bantam Doubleday Dell.
