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    Today I Am a Ma'am: and Other Musings On Life, Beauty, and Growing Older

    By Valerie Harper and Catherine Whitney

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    Valerie Harper has a message for women of a certain age: "Work those laugh lines!" With the irreverence and wit that made her one of television's most beloved personalities, Harper (a.k.a. Rhoda Morgenstern) takes on those phony "fabulous at 50" books written by women whose skin is free of laugh lines and who wouldn't know a cellulite pocket if it bit them on the backside. With her trademark shoot-from-the-hip, call-'em-like-she-sees-'em style, she helps women celebrate, with humor and grace, what it means to be middle aged.

    Harper's essays explore the treacherous terrain women must travel -- from the tyrannies of fashion to the unmentionables of menopause. She tackles the most perplexing questions of the day: If you wear a size zero, do you exist? Would menopause be revered if it happened to men? Do calories count if you eat standing up? Are dressing rooms fitted with fun house mirrors? Today I Am a Ma'am is the perfect antidote to the youth obsession of our culture, offered by America's most reliable girlfriend. It is Humor Replacement Therapy for midlife women, a book you can pick up when ever you need a laugh or a reminder that midriff drift is not the end of the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 29, 2013
    ISBN9780062326348
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    Today I Am a Ma'am: and Other Musings On Life, Beauty, and Growing Older
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    Valerie Harper

    Valerie Harper is best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on Rhoda. The winner of four Emmys, as well as a Golden Globe for her starring role in Rhoda, Harper has been celebrated by fans and peers alike for her work in television. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

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      I really enjoyed this book, it was short but so full of humor and insight I read it in less than an hour and laughed for days after. It is so good to read something written by someone that realizes that not all women must be 20 something, thin, and drop dead georgeous to be of any value.