BOOK REVIEW Evelyn Loeb Beilenson was born in Paris but came to America in 1941 and cofounded an interior design company. Within a decade, she joined her attorney husband to resurrect the family’s publishing company started in 1928. They oversaw the transformation of Peter Pauper Press from a struggling small book publisher into a multi-billion-dollar business that specializes in children’s books, activity books, stationery, journals, holiday cards, engagement calendars, travel guides and gift books. This small book is her daughter Suzanne’s tribute to her mother and dedicated to Evelyn as stated in the preface. Susanne herself is a prolific writer of more than 20 books, including her bestseller, “The Pocket Calorie Counter.”
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Suzanne wrote in the foreword to “Mothers and Daughters” that, “There is no other relationship quite as special as the one between a mother and her daughter...The bond between them is one of the strongest in each of their lives. They are women standing together—learning, living, and most of all, loving.”
Mothers and Daughters: That Special Bond by Kathy A. Megyeri And this little book is a delight. Suzanne includes hand-painted photographs, and in the first chapter, daughters talk about their mothers and their stories will make you both laugh and cry. Names you know will tell you of their mothers and remind you of your own: Gwyneth Paltrow, Eartha Kitt, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrell, Ali McGraw, Cookie Roberts, Bette Davis, Liza Minnelli and more. In chapter two, mothers talk of their daughters: Alice Walker, Phyllis Theroux, Raquel Welch, Joan Rivers, Ingrid Bergman, Carol Burnett, Blythe Danner and Tippi Hedren. Lady Bird Johnson said it best as she ended all conversations and letters to her two daughters with three of the most beautiful words of all, “Remember you’re loved.” The third chapter features both mothers and daughters in public life: Barbara Bush, Betty Ford, Caroline Kennedy, Nancy Davis Reagan, Patti Davis and more. Ruth Bader Ginsberg sums up the relationship so well when she wrote, “I pray that I may be all that my mother would have been, had she lived in an age when women could aspire and achieve.” The book’s final chapter includes “proverbs and pundits” about the mother-daughter relationship; words from Scripture, Hindu, Hebrew, Irish and Italian proverbs, writers like Louisa May Alcott, Oscar Wilde, Pearl Buck, nursery rhymes and writings from philosophers like Horace, but it’s Hope Edelman who sums it up best when she wrote, “Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and our gender.”
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