Book Review We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters News correspondent Cokie Roberts,
author of a meaningful book titled We are Our Mothers’ Daughters, published in
1998, call number 001-170, discusses significant issues facing women today in
her book. She takes her readers on a personal and political journey, exploring
the diverse roles women have played throughout American history and the
connections and distinctions among different generations of women. On a personal
level, each essay is an introduction to several of the fascination women Roberts
has encountered during the course of her reporting career; she also relates
powerful and moving life stories about the women in her life, like her mother
former Congresswoman Lindy Boggs. Roberts style is unique. Roberts takes you
through intimate stories of extraordinary women; these women become the
beginning for more extensive discussions of women’s position in politics,
business, motherhood, and marriage, as well as other issues. Roberts examines
the nature of women’s roles, from mother to mechanic, sister to soldier, from
her personal experience. Roberts is very sincere to her feelings in her writing
in this book.
I felt just as she was happy or sad. She begins her writing with the intense
story of her sister, whom dies from cancer at a young age. The story of her
mothers life as a politician next. Roberts also, wrote about an aunt of hers, a
soldier, mechanic, friend, reporter, civil rights activist, wife, and an
enterpriser. She concludes her book by her last chapter titled A Women’s Place.
She discusses all the important roles of the women she wrote about and how they
tie together. A women’s place is everywhere and anywhere in today’s world. She
worked her writing by writing about the women that were close to her and
extended from there to other fascinating women she encountered in her career.
Roberts dedicated a chapter to each women she wrote about. This book from my
view is sensitive, strait forward, and perceptive. It also shows such a
diversity of choices and perspectives available to women today and greatly
affirms the bond of females powerful inter connection among all women, whatever
their background. I would suggest anyone interested in where a women belong and
the history of women should read this selection. It’s just one of those bookes,
where from start to end you might cry or laugh. I garuntee when you begin to
read, you will not want to stop till you have read the entire book.
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