1,003 Great Things about Being a Woman - Tapa blanda

The trio empathizes humorously with women's universal struggles and triumphs:

" Hair talk is the international language.

" You and the children go first in the lifeboat.

" You can cry your way out of a speeding ticket.

" Oh, the joy of a shoe sale!

" The gender that brought you Girl Scout cookies.

" Women are tougher than men. Proof: bikini waxes.

" Women have a better instinctive sense of how to bag items in the supermarket.

" When we get that tone in our voice, you'd better listen up.

" Nothing wrong with us that a Frappuccino can't fix.

" Without ever having been there first, we know our way around every Target, Wal- Mart, Kohl's, and Kmart.

You'll laugh out loud at these outrageously funny stands on the sisterhood of femininity. 1003 Great Things About Being a Woman is the gift book every woman must own!

Ann Hodgman has written three cookbooks, most recently One Bite Won't Kill You. She also has written more than 40 children's books, and her essays have appeared in Best American Essays and Best Foodwriting. Lisa Birnbach is a television commentator and the author of the wildly successful Official Preppy Handbook and Lisa Birnbach's College Books. She is a Parade magazine contributing editor and the mother of (at least) three children. Patricia Marx, a television screenwriter for shows such as Saturday Night Live, is the author of How to Regain Your Virginity and Meet My Staff.