Praise for You Gotta Have Girlfriends!
Eve Ensler, playwright, performer, author of The Vagina Monologues, In the Body of the World, founder of V-Day and the global campaign: One Billion Rising. – “Suzanne Braun Levine made me understand why I always envied older women…life just get better—more outrageous, more radical, more passionate, less fraught, wiser, deeper, and kinder.”
Gloria Steinem, writer, editor, activist – “Suzanne Levine takes us beyond the frontier of our own expectations and into a new and hope-filled stage of life.”
Darryle Pollack, co-founder of WHOA! Network (Women Honoring Our Age), journalist, cancer advocate and blogger. – “Girlfriends have been the mainstay of support and the older I get the more important they are. They got me through cancer – so I can testify that they are important to your health; every study supports that. They are truly my sisters in every sense.”
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HOW WE LOVE NOW – Women Talk About Intimacy After Fifty
Thelma Reese, ComingofAge.org – “Through research, her own journalistic prowess, and the engaging stories of many women, Levine etches a reassuring picture of the many forms love can take in the lives of women.”
Marc Freedman, founder of Encore.org – “She comes to teach us that we have an opportunity to revamp the script of our life beyond the middle years – in time for millions of boomers surging into this ill-charted territory.
Ellyn Cohen, Rockland, NY Jewish Family Service – “Suzanne’s messages about women in second adulthood are wise, witty, and hopeful. After hearing her, we know that the best is yet to come!”
Mary Eileen Williams, founder FeistySideofFifty.com
“Postmenopausal Zest is fueling a new revolution in the generation that redefined womanhood. Love on the far side of fifty will never be the same!”
Ellen Goodman, Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist
“It’s still rare to read anything this thoughtful about our age group. Especially about care-giving at our age. And care-getting. None of us is too good at that yet. How great to have Suzanne Braun Levine there guiding us as we go along.”
Gloria Steinem, writer, lecturer, editor and feminist activist
“HOW WE LOVE NOW is an immense Aha! of understanding. Because we’ve been punishing love and sex that aren’t linked to having children, we’ve downplayed the pleasures of love and sex after childbearing years are over. Suzanne Braun Levine breaks this barrier.”
Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D., Director of Stanford Center for Longevity
“Discussions of “love” in literature and social science focus almost exclusively on first loves and infatuation. Suzanne Braun Levine looks at what happens to love in the second half of life. It is nothing like the stereotypes!”
Jane Fonda, PRIME TIME: Making the
Most of All of Your Life
Praise for Suzanne Braun Levine’s Work:
”The metaphor I prefer is Suzanne Braun Levine’s ‘Fertile Void’, a space of ‘unremitting unknowingness’ …It is here in the tendrils of the fertile void that something new can begin to sprout — if you surrender to it and don’t numb yourself with busyness.”
Isabel Allende
“What is truer than truth? Answer: The Story.”– Jewish saying, quoted by Isabel Allende, author and activist, discussing women, creativity, feminism and passion in a TED Talk. [March 2007, see video below and more at http://www.ted.com.
Diana Nyad, 61:
“It’s a disappointment, but not a failure.”, after she swam nearly 55 miles over 29 hours in open water and had to end her second effort to swim from Cuba to Key West. On Facebook yesterday, she wrote: “’Fear’ is a big word. ‘Fearless’ is an even bigger word.” http://diananyad.com/blog.
From Doris Lessing…
“It isn’t either or at all, it’s and, and, and, and, and.”