Defying Gravity: A Celebration of Late-Blooming Women - Softcover

· Wini Yunker joined the Peace Corps at age 65, then embarked on a two-year tour of the Ukraine.
· Rainelle Burton overcame dyslexia, homelessness and depression to publish her acclaimed first novel, The Root Worker, at age 52.
· Irma Elder, a shy housewife until she was widowed at age 52, is now the CEO of one of the ten largest Hispanic-owned companies in the nation.
· Jo Fuchs Luscombe was 48 when she won a seat in the Connecticut House of Representatives. She was elected Minority Whip eight years later.
· Linda Bach became a doctor at 50, about the same time her daughter graduated college.
· Jean Kelly, once a teenage mother on welfare, earned her Ph.D. and became a community college administrator at 49.
· Evelyn Gregory, a retired bank vice-president, realized a life-long dream at 71 years old and became a flight attendant.
· Patricia Symonds earned a GED in her 40’s, a Ph.D. in her 50’s, and became a professor of anthropology at Brown University at age 60.
· Mary Orlando was 62 when she bought the historic home she grew up in and turned it into a successful bed & breakfast.
· Jean Karotkin discovered a talent for professional photography at age 47 after a life changing bout with breast cancer. Body & Soul, her book of photos featuring breast cancer survivors, will be published this summer.
· Maureen Horkan was 33 and fed-up with abusive boyfriends and dead-end jobs. She made it into Smith College, went on to law school, and is now an Assistant State Attorney in Jacksonville, Florida.
· Jane Work graduated from college at 50 and eventually opened her own private practice and became a Gestalt therapist. At 87, she continues to see some patients.