Summary of Grace Slick & Andrea Cagan's Somebody to Love?

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#1 The author, a well-educated, contented girl who grew up in a Leave It to Beaver household, eventually embraced a maverick persona. She explained that she had all the information she needed to ride through life like an armored blonde goddess when she saw a 1949 film titled The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend.

#2 I was influenced by the do-it-yourself heroines I had watched as a child. They took it all on without viewing it as something that needed a great deal of support to handle. In the early sixties, when women started telling me I should join the Cause, I thought that was about as interesting as joining the Daughters of the American Revolution.

#3 I thought that women who chose to live life at home chose to do so because they were fulfilling a dream, not because they were bowing to societal pressure. I couldn’t imagine anyone doing something they didn’t want to do.

#4 I loved to dress up as different characters from the children’s books I loved. My mother, who was a modern woman, couldn’t participate in this hobby.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822536722

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The author, a well-educated, contented girl who grew up in a Leave It to Beaver household, eventually embraced a maverick persona. She explained that she had all the information she needed to ride through life like an armored blonde goddess when she saw a 1949 film titled The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend.

#2

I was influenced by the do-it-yourself heroines I had watched as a child. They took it all on without viewing it as something that needed a great deal of support to handle. In the early sixties, when women started telling me I should join the Cause, I thought that was about as interesting as joining the Daughters of the American Revolution.

#3

I thought that women who chose to live life at home chose to do so because they were fulfilling a dream, not because they were bowing to societal pressure. I couldn’t imagine anyone doing something they didn’t want to do.

#4

I loved to dress up as different characters from the children’s books I loved. My mother, who was a modern woman, couldn’t participate in this hobby.

#5

I was born in 1939. My parents had graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle, and were married soon after. My father was transferred from the San Francisco–based investment firm of Weeden and Company to the Chicago office, and then to Los Angeles. My mother took legal drugs and gave birth to me at Chicago Hope Hospital.

#6

I had a big family in Los Angeles. I loved L. A. The country was at war in Europe and Asia, but I was aware of it only through the adults’ conversations. I was too young to understand and lucky enough to be unaffected.

#7

I loved going to the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park with my family. It was a beautiful neoclassical building filled with antiquities, and I loved the quiet appreciation that everyone there had for the museum's contents.

#8

I used to watch orchestras play at the band shell near the De Young Museum. I loved to see the forties musicians with their chairs, sheet music, and dark suits or