ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE NEW BOOK…

“Postmenopausal Zest is fueling a new revolution in the generation that redefined womanhood. Love on the far side of fifty will never be the same!”

“It’s still rare to read anything this thoughtful about our age group. Especially about care-giving at our age. And care-getting. None of us is too good at that yet. How great to have Suzanne Braun Levine there guiding us as we go along.”

“HOW WE LOVE NOW is an immense Aha! of understanding. Because we’ve been punishing love and sex that aren’t linked to having children, we’ve downplayed the pleasures of love and sex after childbearing years are over. Suzanne Braun Levine breaks this barrier.”

“Discussions of “love” in literature and social science focus almost exclusively on first loves and infatuation. Suzanne Braun Levine looks at what happens to love in the second half of life. It is nothing like the stereotypes!”

”The metaphor I prefer is Suzanne Braun Levine’s ‘Fertile Void’, a space of ‘unremitting unknowingness’ …It is here in the tendrils of the fertile void that something new can begin to sprout — if you surrender to it and don’t numb yourself with busyness.”

“What is truer than truth? Answer: The Story.”– Jewish saying, quoted by Isabel Allende, author and activist, discussing women, creativity, feminism and passion in a TED Talk. [March 2007, see video below and more at http://www.ted.com.

“It’s a disappointment, but not a failure.”, after she swam nearly 55 miles over 29 hours in open water and had to end her second effort to swim from Cuba to Key West. On Facebook yesterday, she wrote: “’Fear’ is a big word. ‘Fearless’ is an even bigger word.” http://diananyad.com/blog.

“It isn’t either or at all, it’s and, and, and, and, and.”

“The miracle of now is how our life-long either/or way of seeing the world is morphing into a both/and outlook.” Lesson 10: ‘Both’ Is the New ‘Either/Or’ “50 Is the New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood