Maybe It's Me essays

Maybe It's Me essays
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Publisher : Delphinium Books
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9781504074568
ISBN-13 : 1504074564
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Book Synopsis Maybe It's Me essays by : Eileen Pollack

Download or read book Maybe It's Me essays written by Eileen Pollack and published by Delphinium Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eileen is too smart for the third grade, but when she gets a chance to be skipped ahead, she fails the test. The clownish school psychologist tries to gain her trust with an offer of Oreos, but she refuses. After all, he is a stranger and might try to poison her! This is the start of the author’s love-hate relationship with the rules as they were laid out for a girl in the 1960s and as they persist in some form today. As she ascends through a physics degree at Yale that dashes her hopes for love and romance, to a post-graduate summer that leaves her “peed on, shot at, and kidnapped,” to a marriage of supposed equals in which she is expected to do all the housework, child-rearing, and bill paying and make sure the Roto-Rooter guy arrives on time, Pollack shares with poignant humor the trials of being smart and female in a world in which women are rarely appreciated for both their bodies and their minds. Maybe It’s Me is a question all women have asked themselves. But Pollack’s message will resonate with readers of all genders as a story of the very human search for connection, love, acceptance, and self-respect. The author of the groundbreaking memoir The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club, Pollack proves that even in her sixties, wiser and more bruised but no less hilarious, she is still very much in the game.


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