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"While reading Joan Peters' book, I felt myself give an audible sigh of relief. Finally, someone has created a manual for my life!  Peters has pieced together the myriad social, cultural and financial realities that characterize the complex world in which women now live. . . . This book is the collective wisdom of the best girlfriends you'll ever have:  I strongly recommend it for anyone who is searching for the best life possible."

—Ellen McGirt, President, CassandrasRevenge.com 

"A powerful and insightful look at who we are as women, where we come from, and how we can all use the lessons of our predecessors to our every advantage in life. I want to give a copy to every woman I know!"

—Jennifer Kushell, Director, Young Entrepreneurs Association

"Need ideas for having it all without sacrificing too much? Not Your Mother's Life is chock-full of useful personal anecdotes about more humane workplaces and the women, men, and policies behind them. Peters makes you believe that there's hope yet for the working mother."

—Amy Richards and Jennifer Baumgardner, authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future  

"Smart, solid, sensible and stimulating"

Susan Estrich, Law professor, University of Southern California, author of Sex and Power.

 "We all know the stories that tell how women can fail—most newspapers are only too happy to document examples of working mothers not making it, going crazy, or worse. How refreshing, then, to read these portraits of women integrating work, love and family on their own terms."

—Ariel Gore, Founder, founding editor of Hip Mama and author of The Mother Trip and The Hip Mama Survival Guide

 Praise for When Mothers Work:

 "A smart, tough-minded approach to the balancing act of working women: satisfying their children and themselves."

The New York Times

 "A passionate and convincing study of American parenting… brilliant and radical."

—The New York Times Book Review

"A thought-provoking, tough-minded book."

Publishers Weekly  

  "Smart, solid, sensible and stimulating"

Susan Estrich, Law professor, University of Southern California, author of Sex and Power.