Peggy Orenstein





Peggy Orenstein

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Peggy Orenstein is the author, most recently, of Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. Her previous books include The New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting for Daisy; Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World; and the best-selling SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. A contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, Peggy has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Vogue, Elle, Discover, More, Mother Jones, Salon, O: The Oprah Magazine, and The New Yorker, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered. Her articles have been anthologized multiple times, including in The Best...more


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It’s taken me awhile to read the story I wrote in 2007 for MORE magazine on being tested for BRCA mutations. I find it difficult to go back and read anything I’ve written about cancer. It’s emotional, painful. Once a part of the journey is in the past I’d like to keep it there. But that’s not my destiny, I guess. So I went back and read the piece and found I still stand by it, I still like it a...

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Published on May 23, 2013 09:34
Average rating: 3.66 · 8,629 ratings · 1,715 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
Cinderella Ate My Daughter:...
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 6,700 ratings — published 2011
Waiting for Daisy: A Tale o...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 863 ratings — published 2007 — 7 editions
Schoolgirls: Young Women, S...
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
Flux: Women on Sex, Work, L...
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 436 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
Women On Work, Love, Childr...
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000
When We Were Free to Be: Lo...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012
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“But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.”
Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

“The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.”
Peggy Orenstein, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother

“Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.”
Peggy Orenstein, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother

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