Ladies' Room Reader: The Ultimate Women's Trivia Book - Softcover

Alvrez, Alicia

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9781573245579: Ladies' Room Reader: The Ultimate Women's Trivia Book

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ISBN 10: 1573245577 ISBN 13: 9781573245579

Publisher: Conari Press, 2001

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Fifty-seven percent of women would rather shop than have sex. Jodie Foster was born Ariane Munker, and Lauren Bacall, Betty Joan Perske. Oprah Winfrey and Margaret Avery, both nominated for Best Supporting Actress Oscars for The Color Purple, were the first two African-American women nominated in the same year for the same category. At the height of her popularity, screen star Betty Grable had her legs insured for $25,000 - a modest sum compared to the $650,000 policy Fred Astaire took out on his feet! These nuggets, along with everything else you've ever wanted to know about women, are to be found within this easy-to-browse resource. Here are women's views on shopping, clothing and cosmetics, marriage and children, food, sex, and pets, along with the lowdown on women celebrities and the feats of history's heroines and female adventurers.

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About the Author:

Alicia Alvrez is the pseudonym of a San Francisco Bay Area writer. She specializes in compiling facts about women and writing for and about women. She is also the author of The Ladies' Room Reader, The Ladies' Room Reader Revisited, and Mama Says: The Best Advice from Some of the World's Best Mothers.

Did You Know...?
MAKEUP: The art of wearing makeup goes back 8,000 years. In ancient Egypt the favorite eye shadow color was green,and lipstick was blue-black. The average woman puts on 6 pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.
FIRSTS: The first ever women's boxing match took place in 1876. The winner got a silver butter dish.
INVENTIONS: When patents began to be granted in the early 1800's, women quickly jumped to register their inventions. Some of the first by females include the corset; carbonated liquid; the foot stove; and a machine that manufactures moccasins. The dishwasher was invented by a socialite who was discouraged about the job her hired help was doing on her dishes.

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