marriage girlfriends</br></br>Product Description</br></br>INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN MERYL STREEP AND ANNA QUINDLEN<br><br><b>[Quindlen] serves up generous portions of her wise commonsensical irresistibly quotable take on life. . . . What Nora Ephron does for body image and Anne Lamott for spiritual neuroses Quindlen achieves on the home front.NPR</b><br>  <br> In this irresistible memoir Anna Quindlen writes about a womans life from childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age using the events of her life to illuminate ours. Consideringand celebratingeverything from marriage girlfriends our mothers parenting faith loss to all the stuff in our closets and more Quindlen says for us here what we may wish we could have said ourselves. As she did in her beloved <i>New York Times </i>columns and in <i>A Short Guide to a Happy Life</i> Quindlen uses her past present and future to explore what matters most to women at different ages. Quindlen talks about<br>  <br> <b>Marriage: </b>A safety net of small white lies can be the bedrock of a successful marriage. You wouldnt believe how cheaply I can do a kitchen renovation.??<br>  <br> <b>Girlfriends:</b> ??Ask any woman how she makes it through the day?? and she may mention her calendar?? her to-do lists?? her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through her day?? she will mention her girlfriends. ??<br>  <br> <b>Our bodies:</b> ??I??ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system?? designed expressly to carry my character from