THIS YEAR, this summer, the first week of August, I get a phone call. Caller ID reads: Yale-New Haven Hospital.

How long would it have taken me to feel that I had a right to be out outraged? - Sally Field, In Pieces Olsen, Betty Rollin, Joan Schmitz, Barbara Tirone, Marion Morra, Eve Potts, Laraine Olinatz, Heather Styckiewicz, the staff at Beach Library, Fort Myers Beach, Florida, and in memory of Mollie Donovan and Shirley Temple Black. Hommerding.Īmanda, Joey, Emmie, and Chris Borst, Jene Maria Smith, Jere Paul Smith, Kim Gonzaga, Duane Trevail, Tadhg Hoey, Marnie Mueller, Karen E. Hommerding showed me a desk in the library where I could work, with a window to the horizon, no distractions, nothing but the Gulf of Mexico. (This was not unlike Caesar blending in at the Forum.) Dr. He came to the discussion, took a chair with the book clubbers and blended in. (Please note the Sally Fields epigram I chose for this book.)įor Leroy Hommerding, Director of Beach Library, Fort Myers Beach, FL, who took me under his wing, recommended my first memoir Girls of Tender Age to the library book club, and then invited me to lead a discussion when the book was scheduled. Mad Women Matter.Īnd so, very dear readers, I hope First You Get Pissed strikes a chord the way Girls of Tender Age did. 'Women Writers Give Voice to Their Rage.' A raft of books, both fiction and nonfiction, examined women's anger from personal and political angles-and suggested that the fire is just getting started.The fire has been burning forever, you stupid New York Times, try as you have to throw blankets of scorn over us when we got as mad as men.

Hallelujah! The New York Times has OK'd women getting pissed off.

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