The title The Lives Our Mothers Leave Us encapsulates what this book by Patti Davis is about. No matter what a woman achieves in her life, no matter how old she gets or whether or not she herself becomes a mother, she is always and forever a daughter.

 

The Women Whose Stories Are Included . . .

Patti Davis                    Anne Rice

Carolyn See                  Marg Helgenberger

Melissa Gilbert              Carnie Wilson

Rosanna Arquette         Mariel Hemingway

Anna Quindlen              Angelica Huston

Mary Kay Place            Ruby Dee

Faye Wattleton              Julianne Margulies

Lily Tomlin                    Diahann Carroll

Candice Bergen             Marianne Williamson

Lorna Luft                    Whoopie Goldberg

Alice Hoffman              Cokie Roberts

Kathy Smith

Linda Bloodworth Thomason