If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies
10 best books like If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies (Sandra Martz): Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America, Acolytes, Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image, A Woman Like That: Lesbian And Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories, The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings, The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal, Interesting Women: Stories, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence, Wrong, The Herbfarm Cookbook
| Author | Charisse Jones |
| ISBN | 0060090553 |
Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or...
| Author | Nikki Giovanni |
| ISBN | 0061231312 |
When her work first emerged during the Black Arts Movement, Nikki Giovanni immediately became one of the most highly regarded and controversial poets of the modern age and her popularity continues today as she is celebrated in song, verse, and popular and literary circles.
Now this remarkable...
| Author | Ophira Edut |
| ISBN | 1580051081 |
Pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, and you'll find few women who haven't been fried, dyed, plucked, or tucked. In short, you'll see no body outlaws.
The writers in this groundbreaking anthology reveal a world where bodies come in all their many-splendored shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. In...
| Author | Joan Larkin |
| ISBN | 0380802473 |
The act of "coming out" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's "outlaw" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world.
These accounts...
The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings
| Author | Germaine Greer |
| ISBN | 0871133083 |
Always strong and fearless, Germaine Greer strikes right at the heart of the matter—be it John F. Kennedy and vaginal deodorants, rape and artificial insemination, cosmetic surgery, the death of Jimi Hendrix, or the famine in Ethiopia. This collection represents a mosaic of essays, long and short,...
The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal
| Author | Victoria Zackheim |
| ISBN | 0446580228 |
She's been called the harpy, the Jezebel, the Lorelei, the bitch...and other choice names. In truth, she is someone's daughter, mother, friend, confidante. She seduces husbands, breaks up marriages, and occasionally becomes a stepmother. Sometimes, she is even a victim. So who is this creature...
| Author | Andrea Lee |
| ISBN | 0812966848 |
American brio confronts European sophistication in these critically acclaimed stories of seduction and self-discovery by New Yorker writer Andrea Lee. In vivid prose shot through with mordant irony, Lee offers the reader a rare combination: sensual evocation of the moment and profound insight...
| Author | Rebecca Walker |
| ISBN | 1594489432 |
From the bestselling author whom Time magazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an insightful, moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty.
Like many women her age, Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical...
| Author | Dennis Cooper |
| ISBN | 0802133673 |
As is typical for me, I'm more pulled in by longer-form storytelling, so the winding, desperate opener here, "The Herd", was the highlight. Even moreso than Cooper's first novel, Safe, a generous inclusion here that still felt a bit like three separate stories tied together in order to trace a common...
| Author | Jerry Traunfeld |
| ISBN | 0684839768 |
Not so long ago, parsley was the only fresh herb available to most American cooks. Today, bunches of fresh oregano and rosemary can be found in nearly every supermarket, basil and mint grow abundantly in backyards from coast to coast, and garden centers offer pots of edible geraniums and lemon thyme....
| Author | Lorraine Anderson |
| ISBN | 1400033217 |
Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the...
| Author | Anne Carson |
| ISBN | 0375707565 |
Anne Carson has been acclaimed by her peers as the most imaginative poet writing today. In a recent profile, The New York Times Magazine paid tribute to her amazing ability to combine the classical and the modern, the mundane and the surreal, in a body of work that is sure to endure.
In Men in the...
Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude
Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of “people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic”—female-to-male...
Fire with Fire: New Female Power and How It Will Change the Twenty-First Century
| Author | Naomi Wolf |
| ISBN | 0099329611 |
In her bestselling book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf sought to change the way in which women see themselves in relation to their bodies. Now she focuses on how they see themselves in relation to power.
She argues that the feminist movement has to change if it is to speak to a new generation of women,...
A Walk on the Beach: Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman
| Author | Joan Anderson |
| ISBN | 0767914759 |
Shortly after arriving on Cape Cod to spend a year by herself, Joan Anderson’s chance encounter with a wise, playful, and astonishing woman helped her usher in the transformations and self-discoveries that led to her ongoing renewal. First glimpsed as a slender figure on a fogged-in beach, Joan...
More Readings From One Man's Wilderness: The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke, 1974-1980
| Author | Richard Proenneke |
| ISBN | 0160729947 |
Richard L. Proenneke--a modern-day Henry David Thoreau--built a cabin in Twin Lakes, Alaska, during the spring of 1968, sparking thirty years of personal growth in which he spent the majority of his time strengthening his relationship with the wilderness around him. Following in the footsteps of...
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0812971051 |
In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the...
The Story of the Cannibal Woman
| Author | Maryse Condé |
| ISBN | 0743271289 |
One dark night in Cape Town, Rosélie's husband goes out for a pack of cigarettes and never comes back. Not only is she left with unanswered questions about his violent death but she is also left without any means of support. At the urging of her housekeeper and best friend, the new widow decides to take...
The World and Other Places: Stories
| Author | Jeanette Winterson |
| ISBN | 0375702369 |
Her first short story collection exhibits the multitude of talents that have made English novelist Jeanette Winterson not just admired but beloved by her many fans. There are the surprising, fresh little phrases minted expressly to convey the delicate realities of the made-up world. There's the...
| Author | Courtney Rubin |
| ISBN | 0071416234 |
From "Shape "magazine's popular "Weight-Loss Diary" columnist comes a hilarious, sometimes heartwrenching look at the daily struggle of dieting
In this frank and funny book, Courtney Rubin shares what she learned about dieting--and herself--in more than two years of chronicling her...
The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac
| Author | John Hildebrand |
| ISBN | 0870206729 |
""I've never believed that living in one place means being one thing all the time, condemned like Minnie Pearl to wear the same hat for every performance. Life is more complicated than that." "
In this remarkable book of days, John Hildebrand charts the overlapping rings--home, town, countryside--of...
| Author | Elizabeth Lowell |
| ISBN | 0380767643 |
A WOMAN WITHOUT LIES
An artist in glass and light, Angel once loved with sweetness and fire. Then she learned the pain of irretrievable loss --- the sad and sudden permanence of death.
A MAN WITHOUT TRUST
Miles Hawkins has known only hatred and betrayal from women. Scarred...
