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Summary: TOTALLY INSPIRING!
Review: I find myself picking up this book over and over again, any time I need a little insight or even a little lift. Covering a wide array of topics, I love how it's laid out so if I want to focus on a certain topic, I can. The most fun is every morning I wake up, I close my eyes and flip through the book and wherever I land, I use that quote to get me through the day. What a job well done!
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Summary: Great birthday gift
Review: I gave my daughter and her friend The Girls' Book of Wisdom as one of their birthday party gifts. My daughter has not put down the book since she began reading it on Saturday night. Between the birthday celebration, drives in the car to the store, church, dinner, free time, and bedtime, she has enjoyed it so much. She wants me to read it when she's done with it. She keeps me posted on what chapter she's on, and the last I heard she was on chapter 9. She is so fascinated with all the quotes and particularly with the women quoted. I look forward to giving her The Girls' Guide to Life on her real birthday.
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Summary: Thank you so much for such a neat book for girls!
Review: I give the Girls' Book of Wisdom to the girls I visit as a volunteer at the local juvenile detention center. All girls like presents, and it's a great ice breaker. Later they tell me about favorite quotes, and, even better, about sharing their book with other girls and comparing quotes. I told the three girls I gave the book to so far that they could leave it at the detention center if they wanted when they left, but none would consider it -- the closest was one of them allowing another to borrow it overnight. I plan to continue taking copies to new girls I'm assigned. I intend to give one to each of my three teenage granddaughters for Christmas. I also enjoyed it myself at age 67!
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Summary: This will inspire girls all over the world!
Review: I got The Girls' Book of Wisdom for Christmas, and I love it so far. It touched my heart and many of my friends' too. I can't wait to get the other book The Girls' Guide to Life.
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Summary: This book will inspire all teenage girls!
Review: I had the pleasure of meeting Catherine Dee during one of her book signings. I must admit this book is unlike any other. It gives you inspiration through quotes by popular females of today. You'd be surprised how much they make you think and relate to your own life. Being a female I truly appreciated this gift Catherine Dee gave us. Don't miss out!
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Summary: Thanks to my granddaughter for giving me this book
Review: I have been reading this most beautiful of books. I am so pleased with it. Page after page of the best, most inspiring, most true and encouraging quotes from regular people and writers, both famous and not.I have gone from page to page, being stimulated and encouraged, and feeling like I've been given the wherewithal to carry on with happiness and enthusiasm. Everyone who reads this book should be most encouraged. The Girls' Book of Wisdom is a book of great value!
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Summary: Wit and Wisdom Win Your Heart
Review: I picked up a copy of The Girls' Book of Wisdom for my eleven-year-old daughter at an author signing recently. I thought it had just the right look and feel: perky cover art with bright, girlish flowers, and a trio of preteens wearing a variety of expressions I'm relearning is the mood palette of adolescence: uncertainty, elation, challenge.A tidy little size, too, I thought... just right for backpack, desk drawer, bedside table-anywhere she might tuck a treasure, if it made it to treasure status. It had possibilities. Cheery pen and ink drawings, a simple, open page layout that doesn't warn "This stuff is serious business!" And an overriding optimistic and comforting collection of quotes on subjects concerning girls: beauty, acceptance, mood swings, confidence, goals, dreaming... I was right. My daughter delved right in. She even read aloud several quotes that made her laugh or sigh. Among my favorites, that I read aloud when it was my turn, were quotes of the women of my generation: Gloria Steinem ("Self esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it."); Janis Joplin ("Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got."); Susan Sarandon ("I believe strongly in my own personal magic.")... We agree on Miss Piggy. She's very together ("Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."). And so The Girls' Book of Wisdom, with its slightly heavy title (But then I never would have bought The Girls' 365 Days of One-Liners-to-Live-By, or some such) has moved from my daughter's desk to bedside table these several weeks. We've each picked it up from time to time and said, "Hey, listen to this one..." Good book; good choice, I've thought, each time that happens. Makes for good conversation. But it came to earn its name, The Girls' Book of Wisdom, last week. I've been reeling from a powerful personal loss in my adult life, one I would never expect a young adolescent to understand. My daughter has felt my upset and, being of a sympathetic nature, she's wanted to soothe me. Two nights ago in the middle of an explanation of why I should "cheer up," she told me, "Mom, listen, the more lost you are, the more you have to look forward to." "That's pretty wise," I said. "It's from the book, Mom." "Yeah? Who said it," I asked her. "Calista Flockhart..." And there you have what makes this a wise book: the keen editorial sensibilities of Catherine Dee, the creator, because it takes a wise collector to sift through the material of the ages and focus it at the hearts of young girls, tying together strands of advice and philosophy-contemporary and timeless-into a resource that communicates right there in their day-to-day language and lives. Targeted for an audience of young girls from about 9-16, it's a book I highly recommend for ALL ages. We moms of young adolescents are just lucky! We're discovering it first!
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Summary: great gift for girls and women on your list
Review: I really love this book. It's full of wonderful words of wisdom. I'm 37 years old and I bought it for myself. I would highly recommend it.
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Summary: Extensive Research Leads to this Book as Gift Item
Review: I was given the task by a mother/daughter group I'm in to come up with a book we could give our daughter's as they graduate from fifth grade. After extensive research I settled on this book. We hope the girls will turn to these quotations again and again as they mature. The topical organization will make the use of this book easy for them.
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Summary: I thought this book was extremely good!
Review: I was in a terrible mood when I first read it, and it really motivated me. This book is the best thing to have when you're feeling down. I recommend this book for all girls needing a bit of cheering up, or just some encouragement or inspiration.
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