What I Told My Daughter

In their inspiring introduction to their timely book, a TV executive and an entertainment magazine editor write that women have a responsibility to help their daughters combat prejudice against women, to teach them that "we don't need to demand equality so much as we need to live and breathe it in everything we do." As Nina Tassler reads the introduction, her slow enunciation and sincere tone set the stage for us to absorb the personal stories of a collection of accomplished, often ceiling-breaking, executives and celebrities. With cogent, richly textured stories, these mothers reveal how they tried to prepare their daughters for lives of equal respect from others and unfettered, self-actualizing achievement. The narrators chosen to perform their stories are unfailingly true to the spirit of this book, and well matched to the thoughtful women whose stories they render. T.W. � AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine