The Wit and Wisdom of Women

by Melissa Stein

Presents a collection of quotes by women on topics ranging from ambition, career, and self-esteem to love, relationships, sex, and age

191 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

Melissa Stein's poetry collection Rough Honey won the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, selected by Mark Doty. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, New England Review, Best New Poets, the Southern Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and her work has won awards from Redivider, Spoon River Poetry Review, Literal Latte, and the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation, among others. She is a freelance editor in San Francisco.

Reviews

[Mayda · Rating 3 out of 5]

This little book would be an interesting addition to your library, to peruse at your leisure or to leave on the coffee table for guests to pick up during a visit. Chock full of words of wisdom with a bit of humor thrown in, this book is sure to give you something to contemplate and debate besides the weather. A handy index lists the contributors along with their vocations.

[Sienna H · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was not a ¨story book" It was a collection of quotes. This book surprised me but it was good. Although I like stories better. This book was boring if you read it for too long. The quotes in this book were amazing though. It made me realize how smart women are. good book overall.