What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
(Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that i...)
Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the fact that they have achieved goals previous generations of women could only dream of, they nonetheless feel more confused and insecure than ever. What has gone wrong? What can be done to set it right? These are the questions Danielle Crittenden answers in What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us. She examines the foremost issues in women's lives - sex, marriage, motherhood, work, aging, and politics - and argues that a generation of women has been misled: taught to blame men and pursue independence at all costs. Happiness is obtainable, Crittenden says, but only if women will free their minds from outdated feminist attitudes. By drawing on her own experience and a decade of research and analysis of modern female life, Crittenden passionately and engagingly tackles the myths that keep women from realizing the happiness they deserve. And she introduces a new way of thinking about society's problems that may, at long last, help women achieve the lives they desire.
(Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you ...)
Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you are, you will love Amanda. An important, shrewd, and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that answers the question: What happens when Bridget Jones or the Sex and the City girls get married and have babies? Nothing ever prepared Amanda for this: not her elite college degree, not her brainy friends, not her mother the feminist heroine. At age 35, she finds herself at home with two children, mopping spills and singing The Itsy-Bitsy Spider. It doesn't help that her husband's face is all over national television or that her best friend is dating a billionaire or that every woman she knows seems to have a plastic surgeon and an interior decorator. While everyone else is racing up the fast track, it's getting hard for Amanda to remember why she left work in the first place. Set amidst the glamor and power of boom-time Washington, D.C., Amanda Bright is a novel about status and ambition marriage and jealousy and a woman's struggle to discover the things that matter most. Amanda Bright@Home will become an anthem for a generation of women that is learning that success is not always found at the office.
(It's a little-known fact that President Bush - known to h...)
It's a little-known fact that President Bush - known to his Instant Messenger buddies as "Kickass43" - has logged almost as much time chatting online as he has clearing brush at Crawford. Now this hilarious collection of imaginary online correspondence between the POTUS and pals sheds light and empathy on W's tumultuous second term in office. Whether it's dodging Harriet Miers after the fallout of her Supreme Court nomination, hosting a live online chat with the nation's schoolchildren to disastrous effect, or the surprising late-night alliance with Bill Clinton ("Ladeezman42") because both wish to keep Hillary out of the White House, you'll never look at politics the same way again. Gleefully poking fun at political figures on both sides of the divide, The President's Secret IMs is wickedly clever, deliciously irreverent, and in the words of Kickass43, "ttly awesum" and "gr8." Srsly.
(With more than 150 splendid photographs, headnotes that i...)
With more than 150 splendid photographs, headnotes that illuminate Poland's vibrant food culture, and more than 90 recipes for classic and contemporary Polish food, this unique and fascinating cookbook brings an ignored cuisine to light.
Danielle Crittenden is a Canadian-American author, journalist, and editor. She is a founder and CEO of Fig Tree & Vine, an e-commerce and lifestyle content site aimed at an affluent Jewish demographic.
Background
Danielle Crittenden was born on April 20, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the daughter of Max Crittenden, a former editor, and Yvonne Ann (Crittenden) Worthington, a journalist and book critic. Her stepfather was Peter Worthington, a journalist.
Education
In 1981 Danielle Crittenden graduated from Northern Secondary School. She did not attend university.
From 1983 to 1986 Danielle Crittenden was a reporter for Toronto Sun. From 1994 to 1999 she served as a founding editor and contributor of Women's Quarterly. In 1999 she was a columnist for New York Post.
Danielle served in an executive capacity for the Huffington Post Media Group. She was recruited by Arianna Huffington to build and run the blog rail when HuffPost launched its Canadian edition in 2011; from there she became International Blog Editor for HPMG, developing and coordinating blog content with all international editions, before leaving to found FT&V in 2014.
A longtime contributor to the Huffington Post, her numerous articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, theWashington Post, the Daily Telegraph, and the Ladies Home Journal, among other publications. A former columnist for the New York Post, she has appeared on NBC’s Today show, The O’Reilly Factor, ABC’s 20/20 and Nightline, and network news shows, as well as numerous programs for CSPAN, MSNBC, PBS, CNN, Fox, NPR, CTV, and CBC.