Thirteen essays by the author of the groundbreaking "Goddesses in Everywoman" and "The Millionth Circle," this book details crone years as growing years and provides a blueprint by which women can devote their time, energy, and creativity to what really matters.
Thirteen essays by the author of the groundbreaking "Goddesses in Everywoman" and "The Millionth Circle," this book details crone years as growing years and provides a blueprint by which women can devote their time, energy, and creativity to what really matters.
In her latest book, Crones Don't Whine, Jean Shinoda Bolen's playful sense of humour and keen insight combine to offer women thirteen qualities to cultivate. Engage in these small practises and you're bound to be a happier person, who's doing her bit to make the world just a little better. Here are thirteen brief essays to turn to again and again, in bad times and good, alone and with others.
“"Women over 50 are a country to which this youth-obsessed culture has few guides. Whether we're living there now or hope to be, Jean Shinoda Bolen gives us sign-posts to this land of wisdom, joy, freedom, and leadership." -- Gloria Steinem”
Women over 50 are a country to which this youth-obsessed culture has few guides. Whether we're living there now or hope to be, Jean Shinoda Bolen gives us sign-posts to this land of wisdom, joy, freedom, and leadership. --Gloria Steinem-- "Reviews" This is a lighthearted manual on how to become a juicy and wise old woman. I certainly want to be one of those crones who doesn't whine! --Isabel Allende-- "Reviews" Her humor so available, her wisdom so needed--speaking as a crone, that is! --Olympia Dukakis-- "Reviews" A wise and honest book. Profoundly important to the sustainability of our species and world. --Alice Walker-- "Reviews"
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst in private practice, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center, and an internationally known lecturer. She is the author of numerous books including Goddesses in Everywoman, Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women and Save the World, Crones Don't Whine and The Millionth Circle.
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