Summary of Mary Pipher's Women Rowing North

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The one thing we can predict about our own lives is that they will be unpredictable. In this life stage, we will be beset by internal and external crises. We must find a new sense of meaning and purpose in our lives.
#2 As we age, our bodies and relationships change, and the pace of change accelerates. We must develop new habits to meet the challenges of this life stage. Change may be gradual, but our realization of it comes in bursts.
#3 We can grow in our moral imagination. This increased capacity for empathy comes from our own suffering and our witnessing of suffering. Pain drives us deeper and makes us kinder. It also makes us tougher.
#4 We are constantly engaged in a process of reflecting and problem solving. We ask questions such as Now that I have time to travel, where do I want to go. and Since my best friend moved to Arizona, whom do I call for a movie date.

Sujets

• Human development (biology)

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 26 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669366881
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Mary Pipher's Women Rowing North
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The one thing we can predict about our own lives is that they will be unpredictable. In this life stage, we will be beset by internal and external crises. We must find a new sense of meaning and purpose in our lives.

#2

As we age, our bodies and relationships change, and the pace of change accelerates. We must develop new habits to meet the challenges of this life stage. Change may be gradual, but our realization of it comes in bursts.

#3

We can grow in our moral imagination. This increased capacity for empathy comes from our own suffering and our witnessing of suffering. Pain drives us deeper and makes us kinder. It also makes us tougher.

#4

We are constantly engaged in a process of reflecting and problem solving. We ask questions such as Now that I have time to travel, where do I want to go. and Since my best friend moved to Arizona, whom do I call for a movie date.

#5

Willow is a 72-year-old woman who is fit and stylish with dark brown eyes and wavy auburn hair. She is at the peak of a long and satisfying career in human services. She is the only daughter of Russian immigrant parents who died when they were in their sixties, her father of a stroke and her mother of a heart attack.

#6

Willow loves her job, and she is very good at it. She can describe herself as happy or sorrowful, and she can emphasize her current prosperous life or her childhood poverty. She cannot stand the thought of being helpless or enfeebled.

#7

The more trauma we experience, the more we can become resilient and appreciate life. We can navigate the river’s snags, logjams, and downpours with competence and confidence. We can explore the mysteries along the river of time that we help each other travel down.

#8

I walked towards the cholla cactus that stood above the gurgling arroyo. It was old and tattered, and some of its branches were blackened and withered. It represented what my life would be like: consisting of thorns and fruit, pain and beauty.

#9

Aging is a universal experience, but in America, we see cultural and emotional distancing from the old. Old women in America suffer from ageism, which is a social disease that defines them as being useless and evil.

#10

As we age, we experience role reversals that can feel disempowering. Younger people have the prestige and prominence, and our supervisors, doctors, and attorneys are sometimes decades younger than we are.

#11

The relationship between generations is difficult to understand for young people, who have never been old. When we are old, we have memories of being a child, a teenager, a young adult, or a middle-aged person.

#12

There are, however, exceptions to age-related segregation. Many of us have young friends and acquaintances. Some people are not ageist. We often experience younger people stepping up with offers to help us.

#13

We must understand our constraints in order to break free from them. We must resist definition by the broader culture, and find our own ways to cope with it.

#14

We can take responsibility for educating others about both the negative stereotypes and the reality of our lives. We can resolve not to criticize ourselves or other women, and we can state out loud that we don’t like mother-in-law jokes.

#15

As we move toward our seventies, our bones change, our vision deteriorates, and our sense of smell and taste changes. We struggle with our balance and coordination. Everything seems to droop and sag. Our sexuality changes in surprising ways.

#16

Sylvia and Lewis have one daughter, Lenore. They raised her in their church and paid for piano lessons for her. Until high school, Lenore was doing all right except for her grades, but then she started drinking, using drugs, and staying out all night.

#17

When Sylvia went to see her doctor, she was informed that she was overweight and needed to change her lifestyle. She was also told that her blood pressure and cholesterol were too high, and that she needed to exercise more.