<![CDATA[Letter to My Daughter]]>

false <![CDATA[Letter to My Daughter]]> 4016515 10 For a world of devoted readers, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. Whether she is recalling such lost friends as Coretta Scott King and Ossie Davis, extolling honesty, decrying vulgarity, explaining why becoming a Christian is a “lifelong endeavor,” or simply singing the praises of a meal of red rice–Maya Angelou writes from the heart to millions of women she considers her extended family. Like the rest of her remarkable work, Letter to My Daughter entertains and teaches; it is a book to cherish, savor, re-read, and share. “I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.” –from Letter to My Daughter 4062985 23 9 1994 Letter to My Daughter total:1061|5:283|4:408|3:266|2:90|1:15| 1061 4038 2095 323 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 5 5 false Mon Oct 27 16:29:52 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 16:37:30 -0700 2008
Favorite Quotes:

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, cha...more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 3 1 false Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 04 14:49:47 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 07:38:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 4 2 true Thu Oct 23 09:04:07 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 06 08:49:36 -0800 2008 i LIKED THE PART WHEN SHE WALKED INTO A HOUSE,AND TO HONOR THERE GUEST THEY PUT RAISINS IN THERE DRINKS. bUT MAYA DIDN' KNOW WHAT SHE WAS DRINKING AND SHE THOUGHT SHE HAD SWALLOWED A ROACH. BUT TO BE RESPECTFUL SHE DIDN'T SAY ANYHING. bUT AFTERWARDS SHE SWALLOWED...more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 5 0 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:33:04 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 20:33:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 5 1 false Mon Nov 17 06:10:50 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 06:26:11 -0800 2008 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 1 1 false Wed Sep 02 00:10:37 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 00:16:01 -0700 2009
The letters were meant to be tidbits of wisdom and insp...more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 0 0 false Wed Dec 09 06:42:11 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 09 07:30:26 -0800 2009 Maya Angelou
192pp
Random House
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This is not so much of a book but more of a guide to woman. Maya Angelou gives her advice to woman, how she got through her life as a woman. How to defend yourself, how to be yourself,etc. These short sto...more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 3 0 false Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 05 07:52:15 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 04:01:49 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 5 1 false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 12:04:34 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 12:10:00 -0800 2009
Favorite quote from the book shed light into challenges I currently am presented with in my own life:

"When I find myself filling with rage ov...more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 3 0 false Wed Mar 25 14:32:40 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 18:10:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 1 0 false Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 09:50:03 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 19:09:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 5 1 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 17:59:31 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 10:39:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 5 1 false Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 20:11:45 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 08:36:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 5 1 false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 19:58:30 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 20:02:24 -0800 2009 I once heard Maya Angelou read from her most famous book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Her presence is commanding her voice thick with empathy and deep understanding of life. She was in the looking back phase at that time and I was deeply moved by her insights. As a parting note she ...more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 5 1 false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 06:35:46 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 06:39:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 4 1 false Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 09:26:50 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 08:46:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 4 0 false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 03:27:52 -0700 2009 Wed May 27 03:40:15 -0700 2009 Letter to My Daughter is a loose collection of essays and poems relating lessons learned on the bumpy road of life. Maya Angelou is graceful and endearing as she writes of the struggles she faced growing up and the casual coincidences that can alter a life.
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I just finished reading Letter to My Daughter. It took me one afternoon. It’s bite-size Maya Angelou. Not exactly the depth and length of her autobiographies. I wasn’t sure how I felt about it at fir...more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 4 0 false Thu Jan 29 05:19:03 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 05:25:54 -0800 2009
I really enjoyed reading this book. The collection of essays are short (2-3 pages each), so it is easy to pick up and to put down. The essays are actually a random collection of stories, musings, and p...more...]]> 4016515 1400066123 9781400066124 1032 312 Letter to My Daughter 3.81 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255649025m/4016515.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4016515.Letter_to_My_Daughter 3 0 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 05:36:20 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 05:40:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6314861