Cyma Shapiro Interviews Suzanne Braun Levine, Author of You Gotta Have Girlfriends

img-youve-gotta-have-girlfriends_113600756248Q:  On the heels of your last book How We Love Now: Women Talk About Intimacy After Fifty,  what compelled you to write this new book?

With each book about women of my generation Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, Fifty Is the New Fifty, How We Love Now I talked to more women, did more research, and learned more about the exciting new stage of life we are exploring.  Every interview, no matter how wide-ranging, eventually got to the subject of girlfriends. “I couldn’t have done it without my girlfriends!” was the phrase I heard over and over again. I realized that I needed to write a book that focused on that life-enhancing subject. Hence, my just-out e-book You Gotta Have Girlfriends: A Post-Fifty Posse is Good for Your Health. […]