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Book Description
Curmudgeons have for ages spiked life and literature with barbs and arrows, which are never so sharp as when shot from a woman's sling. From Shakespeare's Shrew to television's Maude, they've added pepper to the often bland stew of human conversation. Organized into 50 broad categories, The Curmudgeon Woman is a collection of 500 quotations from more than 300 razor-witted females. Covering a period from the 1600s to the present, they share their needle-sharp points of view on such engaging topics as aging, happiness, sex, marriage, inequality, fashion, life, and death. Not just funny, not just nasty, The Curmudgeon Woman combines sharp wit with deep truths. With contributions ranging from Minna Antrim ("Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.") to Natalie Wood ("The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby."), The Curmudgeon Woman displays a wry sense of humor and more wisdom than ought to be allowed.
About the Author
Nancy Henley and Jacqueline Goodchilds are research and teaching psychologists, both semi-retired from UCLA. In the process of teaching, researching, writing articles and editing books and professional journals, they've spent more than 60 years combined trying to understand how people relate to each other.
The Curmudgeon Woman,Nancy M. Henley,Jacqueline D. Goodchilds,Andrews McMeel Publishing,0740710079,General,Humor,Quotations,Quotations, English,Reference,Women,Humor / General
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