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CREDITS
Page 7: “Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life—it has given me me. It has provided time and experience and failures and triumphs and time-tested friends who have helped me step into the shape that was waiting for me. I fit into me now. I have an organic life, finally, not necessarily the one people imagined for me, or tried to get me to have. I have the life I longed for. I have become the woman I hardly dared imagine I would be.” —Anne Lamott. Excerpt(s) from PLAN B: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FAITH by Anne Lamott, copyright © 2005 by Anne Lamott. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Page 14: Painting of Beatrice Wood based on a photograph by Tony Cunha. Copyright © Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts.
Page 23: Painting of Vera Wang based on a photograph by Christopher Peterson.
Page 28: Painting of Louise Bourgeois based on a photograph by Chris Felver.
Page 40: Painting of Keiko Fukuda based on photography by Arik-Quang V. Dao from San Jose Buddhist Judo Club.
Pages 60–61: “We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.” From “A Conversation with Melissa Etheridge” by Marianne Schnall on Feminist.com. Used by permission of the author.
Page 75: “The flowers don’t know they’re late bloomers. They’re right in season.” —Debra Eve. Excerpt from the article “What’s Wrong with the Term ‘Later Bloomer’?” Laterbloomer.com. Used by permission of the author.
Page 82: Painting of Sister Madonna Buder based on a photograph by J. Craig Sweat.
Page 94: Painting of Carmen Herrera based on a photograph by Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu.
Page 114: Painting of Eva Zeisel based on a photograph by Talisman Brolin.
Pages 128–129: “People may call what happens at midlife ‘a crisis,’ but it’s not. It’s an unraveling—a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re ‘supposed’ to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.” —Brené Brown. Excerpt from The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown. Used by permission of the author.
LISA CONGDON is an author, illustrator, and fine artist. Her other books include Whatever You Are be a Good One; Art, Inc.; Fortune Favors the Brave; and The Joy of Swimming, also from Chronicle Books. She lives in Portland, Oregon. You can see more of her work at www.lisacongdon.com.