"I have lived through a Depression, World War II, a polio epidemic, life in the suburbs, activism, bra burning, a sexual revolution, cancer and widowhood.  I have known women who believed they belonged in the kitchen and women who left their husbands to get out of it.  I had a mother who rarely said what she felt because women did not back then, and I determined to be different, and never shut my mouth.  I like to think I have kept that promise to myself through the written word.  In these essays, I am sometimes angry, sad, joyful, excited, sensual, exploring, and amazed.  Now in my seventies, I'd like to share some of what I have learned and some of what I hope yet to discover.  Be prepared for honesty and some soul searching.  And remember that at my age, I can be even braver than ever before about what I dare to say or even what I dare to do."  .......