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"Lisa Alther and Françoise Gilot have been friends for more than twenty-five years. Although from different backgrounds (Gilot from cosmopolitan Paris, Alther from small-town Tennessee) and different generations, they found they have a great deal in common as women who managed to support themselves with careers in the arts, while simultaneously balancing the obligations of work and parenthood. About Women is their extended conversation, in which they talk about everything important to them: their childhoods, the impact of war on their lives and their work, fashion, self-invention, style, feminism, even child rearing. They also talk about the creative impulse and the importance of art. This is a charming and endearing dialogue between two intelligent and often funny women as they ponder what it is to be a woman"--… (more)
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She is definitely worth getting to know. I recommend this charming book, and also Life With Picasso, which ends up being more about herself and her growth as a young woman and artist in her own right, while in a complicated relationship with a famous artist.
Francoise Gilot should be right up there on a list of every strong, intelligent, talented woman you could name.