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The Persistence of
Phenomenal Women
Marlene Wagman-Geller
Copyright © 2017 Marlene Wagman-Geller.
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Still I Rise : The Persistence of Phenomenal Women
Library of Congress Cataloging
ISBN: (paperback) 978-1-63353-596-1, (ebook) 978-1-63353-595-4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2017908614
BISAC category code : BIO022000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Printed in the United States of America
PREVIOUS BOOKS
Behind Every Great Man: The Forgotten Women Behind the World’s Famous and Infamous
And the Rest is History: The Famous (and Infamous) First Meetings of the World’s Most Passionate Couples
Eureka! The Surprising Stories Behind the Ideas
That Shaped the World
Once Again to Zelda: The Stories Behind Literature’s Most Intriguing Dedications
Dedication
To the women who helped me rise:
My Mother, Gilda Wagman
My daughter, Jordanna Shyloh Geller
Author’s Note: The title of this book, STILL I RISE is a tribute to Maya Angelou’s 1978 poem, STILL I RISE, where in the first stanza reads:
You may write me down in history,
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
“Still I Rise” can be found in AND STILL I RISE: A BOOK OF POEMS by Maya Angelou, a Random House book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: The Worst of Times (1761)
Chapter 3: The Stepping Stone (1891)
Chapter 4: Steel Gardenia (1895)
Chapter 5: “Where Your Treasure Is…” (1903)
Chapter 6: The Black Sky (1910)
Chapter 7: This Little Light of Mine (1917)
Chapter 8: Phenomenal Woman (1928)
Chapter 9: Dance All Night (1928)
Chapter 10: Can We Talk? (1933)
Chapter 11: Under the Bus (1939)
Chapter 13: The Female David (1945)
Chapter 14: A Miracle Worker (1946)
Chapter 15: My Mother’s Daughter (1952)
Chapter 16: My Beloved World (1954)
Chapter 18: The Boomerang (1959)
Chapter 19: The Glass Castle (1960)
Chapter 23: A Butterfly (1981)
Chapter 24: Sin and Salvation (1982)
Chapter 25: The Best Revenge (1989)
