Word: sylvia
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...Sylvia Goodman, 61, a retired high school teacher, frequently makes the 325-mile drive from her home in Shreveport, La., to New Orleans to indulge her passion for 18th century English furniture and accessories. She has made 20 purchases in the city's shops, including tables, mirrors, silver serving pieces and jewelry. Her favorite: a 100-year-old collapsible library ladder with leather rungs for $2,000. "I've acquired antiques from all over the world, in places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris and New York City," says Goodman. "But I think New Orleans is one of the best places...
...Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett should be hailed as a hero for her enlightening book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, but instead she is being criticized as an anti-feminist [SOCIETY, April 15]. Please! Hewlett did not invent female biology; she only reports the facts, saying that at 27 a woman's chances of getting pregnant begin to decline. As a mother who had a child at age 30, I know that parenthood is all about making hard choices. Having a child is a lifestyle choice. If a woman is not willing to adjust her professional...
...past few weeks, Sylvia Anne Hewlett, the author of Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, has been in the news for highlighting those women of past, many of whom discovered that their dreams of families deferred became dreams denied. Many Harvard women say they were already aware of the dilemma Hewlett outlines and had planned ahead for a checkered future of stop-and-start careers where children would fill in the gaps...
This means, argues economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett in her new book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children (Talk Miramax Books), that many ambitious young women who also hope to have kids are heading down a bad piece of road if they think they can spend a decade establishing their careers and wait until 35 or beyond to establish their families. Even as more couples than ever seek infertility treatment--the number of procedures performed jumped 27% between 1996 and 1998--doctors are learning that the most effective treatment may be prevention, which in this case means...
...entry-level work after her school friends have moved on. She might find she has more energy than older moms, or less maturity; she may feel like the coolest mom at nursery school, or she may feel estranged from her unencumbered college pals. Having a family first, as Sylvia Ann Hewlett says in her book Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children, may be advisable for women who ultimately want careers and children. But that doesn't make it easy...