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Just about everything I need to know in life, I learned from my mother. Fortunately for us, Leslie Bennetts had the same experience and has decided to share it.

Because of the generational and emotional complexities and consequences of the mother-daughter relationship, it is important that any female outlook honor and take a good hard look at motherhood. Women are continually defining themselves according to what their mothers did or did not do, or what qualities they like or dislike about their mothers. Turning into my mother is at the same time my highest aspiration and my greatest fear. Which is why I look to her for guidance. And why The Feminine Mistake is a must-read for all women.

The Feminine Mistake challenges the notion that modern women cannot “have it all,” arguing that, not only can women “have it all,” but that properly balancing work and family can better themselves and their families. Up until recently, arguments for stay-at-home motherhood have ignored the reality that a woman’s financial dependency on her husband and social dependency on her children can have potentially devastating, life-altering, and permanent effects. Bennetts’ sharp observations on the experiences of stay-at-home and working mothers will make you laugh at times, and want to give up at others. But then Bennetts steps in with a solution that any good mother would offer her daughter: to follow your own desires, no matter what challenges stand in your way.

All women deserve the abilty to make well-informed choices. Providing women the choice to work, to stay home with children. To do one, or the other, or both. The Feminine Mistake ensures that women today make informed choices. Ignorance can only be bliss when luck, chance or good fortune is on one’s side. The Feminine Mistake recognizes that women have to create their own happiness, arguing that the only way to do so is to be wealthy in their options and informed in their decisions. And that’s a gift both working and stay-at-home mothers want for their daughters.

For Leslie Bennetts personal commentary and background on her book, The Feminine Mistake, as seen on Fiora.TV on May 7, 2007

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Watch for our interview with Leslie Bennetts tomorrow on ChickSpeak!