Synopses & Reviews
In
Letters to My Daughters, famed political consultant and TV personality Mary Matalin shares the moral, ethical, and occasionally comic life lessons gleaned from her mother's experiences and her own. These letters range from the spiritual to the practical, from giving life to accepting death, from civic to personal responsibility, from looking and feeling good to dealing with those pesky boys, and more.
Here's a sampling of the mother wisdom within:
"When I tell you I understand what you're going through, it's not just because I remember what it felt like to be a teenage girl whose body is being hijacked by hormones against her will. It's because I'm a fifty-something whose body is being hijacked by hormones against her will at this very moment. And if you don't believe me, just ask your father."
"Ma had a complex philosophy of sex, which I heard almost every day from age ten. 'Boys would screw a snake if it would lay still long enough.' Let's flash forward forty years and allowyour mother to give you a twenty-first-century take on boys and S-E-X: 'Boys would screw a snake if it would lay still long enough.'...And men think that's a compliment."
Filled with a belief in the values that keep families strong, and her trademark sense of humor, Matalin's letters are the perfect companion for any mother looking for a fellow traveler on the road to raising good daughters.
About the Author
Mary Matalin served as assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney. She hosted
CNN's
Crossfire, was founding co-host of
Equal Time, and recently starred in Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's
K Street. She also co-authored the bestselling
All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President with her husband, James Carville. She and Carville reside in Virginia with their daughters, Matalin "Matty" Carville and Emerson Normand Carville, as well as three dogs, four cats, two hamsters, and several turtles, two of which coincidentally are ingredients in her husband's gumbo. She is known to remind people at PTA meetings that she is an expert on children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, having married one in 1993.