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Maxing Out: Why Women Sabotage Their Financial Security

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Looking back on her own experiences of financial distress, the author of The Cinderella Complex examines women's fear that financial security will lead to their isolation from others, due to a lifetime of social conditioning. 60,000 first printing. Tour.

292 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1998

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Colette Dowling

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An American psychotherapist and writer best known for her 1981 book The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence, which was a New York Times best-seller.

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August 5, 2009
Author went through hard times and relates her personal stories very well.
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July 9, 2021
This book was poorly written, with scattered thoughts, lengthy stories, and not edited well. This alone, could not allow my eyes to completely read this personal journal accounting thoughts and relaying stories. Not worth the read.

The below is something to ponder:
pg. 88 You can have your freedom or you can have your security, but you can't have both.
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