A Book You Might Find Interesting

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Hey all:

I'm reading this book right now, Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness" by Barbara A. Kerr, Ph.D.

You might find it interesting. There is a section on what she calls "Eminent Women", and it includes stories about the early life, education, and struggles of women like Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Katharine Hepburn, and Maya Angelou. I think it's really interesting, because I've only ever heard stories about the success of these women, and not of their struggles. Some (not all) of them preferred to play alone as children, were isolated from their peers as teens, and preferred solitude in their adulthood. What seemed to save them and bring them fully alive was their work, and as long as they stayed dedicated to that, above all else, they got through everything, even with incredible hardship around them or affecting them and their families.

If you are, like me, intelligent and educated, and still wondering "WTF AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE?" then this book might be helpful to you.

Oh my gosh. I feel like you've just described me. Yes, I guess that you are right.



I should just focus on doing what I like, and not letting bad people to affect me, and don't allow them to put me down. Thanks so much for this.
I'm going to add that book to my list

I think I've read this book, a long time ago, and the sequel (Smart Girls II?). I really identified with some of it.