Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers

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n the bestselling tradition of Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman comes the breakthrough book that teaches women how to stop sabotaging their careers-and start getting ahead. For every professional woman who wants to get ahead-but feels she is at an impasse-NICE GIRLSDON'T GETTHECORNER OFFICE comes to the rescue. When overlooked for that special assignment or promotion, many women point the finger outwardly, looking for someone else to blame. Now, Lois P. Frankel presents a different view in her empowering career primer that helps women identify ingrained habits they learned as girls that may be holding them back, such as couching statements in a question, smiling inappropriately, tilting the head while speaking, and others. Only by overcoming these self-defeating behaviors will the 'nice girl' learn to leverage her power in the workplace-and claim the corner office she so richly deserves.

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For every professional woman who wants to get ahead—but feels she is at an impasse—NICE GIRLS DON'T GET THE CORNER OFFICE comes to the rescue. Although it's less threatening and more politically correct for women to point the finger outwardly when assessing why they are overlooked for promotions and assignments for which they are superbly qualified, the real answers may lie inward.
In this book, Dr. Lois Frankel, an internationally recognized corporate coach and author, reveals the 101 self-sabotaging behaviors women learn as girls-behaviors and habits that are now holding them back in the workplace, such as couching statements as questions, tilting your head when you speak, waiting to be noticed and pinching company pennies. From executive to entry level, every woman needs to know what she is doing to subconsciously sound, look, act, market herself, and/or be treated like a "girl". This book will help women to become aware of when and how they are damaging their career and it will give them the advice and tips they need to help replace these self-defeating behaviors with more effective ones—and finally claim the corner office they so richly deserve.

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Fantastic!.......2007-09-12

I sure wish I had read this book years ago. I finaly understand a lot of issues that had always confused me, and I didn't realize how much I didn't know until I read this book. I'm buying copies for all of my close women colleagues, and starting on it again from the beginning. In fact, I know a lot of men who could benefit from reading this book!

A good kick in the pants!.......2007-08-27

This book was a great eye opener to the "girl" mistakes I make on a daily basis. I have read the book several times and each time I find something new to improve on. I have found myself passing on advice from the book to other women in the office.

This Book is the Bible for Women Who Want To Get Ahead.......2007-08-26

Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office is by far the best book I've ever read aimed at helping women own their power not only in the workplace but in every aspect of life. It's essentially a complete strategic plan for growing and advancing in your career. As a female business owner, I didn't realize how often I diminished my power by falling into many of the mistakes that Dr. Lois talks about in her groundbreaking book. This is one book that you need to keep in your professional development library.

Cassandra Mack, host of The No More Drama Hour of Power and author of, "The Single Mom's Little Book of Wisdom: 42 Tidbits of Wisdom To Help You Survive, Succeed and Stay Strong."

Excellent book.......2007-07-22

This book examines how the messages schoolgirls in America absorbed about being "nice" are detrimental to them once they join the workforce where the rules of expected behavior have long since been set by men. I gave my copy to a young woman I was mentoring who was afraid to ask for time off, when her male peers tended to just inform the higher-ups. I immediately recognized this behavior from the book, and insisted that she read it.

perfect guide for women in the business world .......2007-06-08

I like the book very much. It helped me much in my career.I made many mistakes before I found this book. I didn't believe the normal behavior of the women sabotage their career, but it is absolutely true. It helped me to gain a lot of success. It is a perfect guide for women. I would recommend this book to every ambitious business women, who would like to progress in her career. Good luck to everyone!

Nice Girls Don't Get...: The Corner Office/Rich

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Lots of great advice
Good but not great.
Nice Girls Don't Get Rich

Nice Girls Don't Get...: The Corner Office/Rich
Lois P. Frankel
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Following the outstanding success of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, comes an audio box set which includes Dr. Lois Frankel's new work, Nice Girls Don't Get Rich and Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, abridged into one comprehensive program. For every professional woman who wants to get ahead-but feels that she is at an impasse-NICE GIRLS DON'T GET....BOX SET comes to the rescue. From executive to entry level, single to married, every woman needs to know the subconscious 'girlish' behaviors that prevent her from developing a successful career and a healthy relationship with money-from self-sabotaging habits in the workplace to a reluctance to negotiate. Frankel offers help and motivation in recognizing these self-defeating behaviors to help women attain success at work as well as in their personal lives.

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Lots of great advice.......2007-01-11

I only rated this a 4 because I like to reserve a 5 for truly outstanding things, but don't get me wrong; this was definitely worth my money. There were some mistakes I didn't know were mistakes that I've made, some I see others making, and a few I don't see very often. The advice offered is general and probably not enough to make dramatic differences in anyone's life, but as the old TV show slogan said, "Knowing is half the battle." Awareness is important. It's interesting talking about the points in the book with my husband to hear his take on them. I would suggest finding a good friend (male or otherwise) to discuss them.

I got the audio version so I could listen to it during my long commute. I'm glad my iPod has the ability to back up so I could re-hear some points, because they were worth hearing again. Part of me wants to have the print version so I can quickly locate and review some parts. I don't have time to figure out what the audio tracks should be named so I'm stuck with "track 1, track 2" etc. Providing a play list with the CD's would help.

The book suggests reading just a "mistake" or two, focusing on applying the advice to your life, and then moving on to the next "mistake." That does't work so well when listing to an audio book during a 1 hour commute, where I can hear the whole book through in four days. I plan to listen to it again after several months. If you don't have time to read the print version, the audio version is certainly better than not listening/reading this at all.

Good but not great. .......2006-07-14

I would have saved a lot of time if I had just gotten the list of the mistakes (both career wise & money wise) and read them myself. Even though the mistakes are a good reminder, they were not groundbreaking. Pay attention that this is the "abridged version" which may be the reason why I did not care much for the fluff that came along with each mistake. The mistake, in itself, was self-explanatory.

Nice Girls Don't Get Rich.......2005-05-31

Am I an "ostrich" or an "abdicator?" That's the question I asked myself while reading Nice Girls...! These are just two types of women w/whom you may or may not identify who are foundering in dire financial straits, or, at the least, not reaching their financial potential for behaving like "nice girls." Following each case scenario, coaching tips are offered to prevent or stop us from falling into female behavior traps that are financially crippling. Each tip is in bulletpoint format making the info easily accessible for reference.
Dr. Frankel employs an easygoing, winning writing style to deliver hard-hitting strategies designed to knock women out of their financial complacency and dependency. Her advice ranges from simply balancing a checkbook or weekly budgeting to setting up a private foundation.
If you've read her first book, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, this new book provides the tools necessary to build your wealth after you've attained that desired position. I highly recommend adding it to your "nice girls" collection.

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Inspiring: Buy This For Your Daughters
Get moving!
Powerful and Honest
Touching
A worthwhile story but way too short

Nice Girls Don't Change the World
Lynne Hybels
Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Who you really are as an individual is exactly what delights God and what the world needs. Lynne Hybels knows. Sharing from her personal journey, she reveals the tremendous importance of resisting the forces that would shape you into something other—and less—than who God made you to be.

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Inspiring: Buy This For Your Daughters.......2007-08-09

Growing up in a church, it's easy to "go along" with everyone else's ideas of who you should be as a Godly woman. Somehow the stereotype seems to be: quiet, submissive, kind of fading into the background, busy with motherhood but little else. While those traits may be valid at times, Godly womanhood includes other roles, duties, and yes --- even attitudes.

Lynne Hybels has written a powerful little book about how to escape from the trap of other people's expectations (even when well-intentioned) and discover the woman God created you to be. Easy reading -- but you'll find yourself setting the book down often, just so you can think about and process what Lynne is saying.

Extremely well written --- buy this book for your college-age or older daughters --- or other young women you know and love. Readers of all ages will discover truth in a new way. Thanks, Lynne!

Lisa & David Frisbie
The Center for Marriage & Family Studies
Authors of 8 books, including Raising Great Kids on Your Own: A Guide and Companion for Every Single Parent

Get moving!.......2007-01-17

What I liked most about this book is that it motivated me to get moving. Over the past year, I've been on a journey of self-discovery and this book helped me verify a lot of important issues, the main one being that my voice does matter! It's short and so simple to read, yet filled with life long lessons. Who wants to watch life pass them by? Not me and obviously not Lynne Hybels either. I'd strongly suggest this book to read alone or in a book club. It's not set up for discussion, but there's no doubt that you'll have plenty to talk about. So, get moving!

Powerful and Honest.......2006-12-04

This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. My husband and I read it together and had many meaningful sometimes teary conversations along the way. I recently bought 8 copies for some of my friends. All of them loved it. They don't want to be nice girls anymore either. This book is powerful and honest. Thanks Lynne, for honestly telling your story. It's given me the courage to do the same.

Touching.......2006-05-01

Lynne Hybels writes with great insight and vulnerability. I truly appreciate her willingness to share the wisdom she has gained with her journey. O that young girls would be taught these truths early on by their mothers, and especially their fathers, and be able to hold onto their unique, God-given sense of self throughout their lives.

All that creative energy and intelligence unleashed...well, it would change the world.

A worthwhile story but way too short.......2006-03-27

This has got to be one of the shortest books I have read in ages - and at £8.99 in the UK ($14.99 in the US) I can hardly consider it good value.

Lynne Hybels, wife of Bill Hybels of Willow Creek, tells us about her life as a pastor's wife and how she conformed to all the expectations of her role as mother, woman, pastor's wife, Christian - but missed out on the joy and true power that God can provide. An experience of depression and counselling helped her to understand her true role - not just as a support to those around her, but as someone God can use directly.

The book is hardback with arty photos to illustrate some of her points; the lines are widely spaced and it's a slim volume anyway, but I was astounded to discover I had read the whole book in just sixteen minutes. It was a good read, well-written, but I can't consider it value for money.

Nice Girls Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money

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A great book that can be a help to all
It's not where you are, it's how to get where you want to be
Written for the business woman
Looking for concrete money advice? Look elsewhere...
Great tips and a lot to learn.

Nice Girls Don't Get Rich: 75 Avoidable Mistakes Women Make with Money
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On the heels of the national bestseller Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, Lois P. Frankel turns her attention to the financial mistakes women make, offering advice to help them acquire the wealth they deserve. After her terrific success revealing the mistakes women make that sabotage their careers, Dr. Lois P. Frankel is back to reveal the 75 mistakes women make that prevent them from achieving financial success. From executive to entry level, single to married, every woman needs to know the subconscious behavior that prevents her from developing a healthy and successful relationship with money-from depending on men for financial advice or support to a reluctance for negotiating. Frankel offers help in recognizing these self-defeating behaviors-as well as financial and investment advice and tips to help women claim wealth and riches.

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A great book that can be a help to all.......2007-09-04

Although I knew most of the information in this book and I have been actively involved in my family's finances, I still enjoyed this book very much. My favorite section was "Spending Your Money Wisely". I have always been a shopper and this helped me to understand why I go crazy when I'm in a bad mood. The presentation is easy to understand and each section is short so it is great for people who don't have time to sit around reading for hours at a time.

It's not where you are, it's how to get where you want to be.......2007-07-12

I was given the book by a friend, and started reading it just because I like reading. As I read, it was a good eye opener for great aspirations. It is not so much about where you are, but if you want to go far, you have to learn to manage what you have currently. It coaches on how to manage your money currently, work at getting better, and hopefully, some day be rich moneywise. There is an activity that analyzes how well you are on your way to getting rich, and I highly agree with that. There are areas that I do not agree with (Money has to be among the top 3 priorities in life) among others, but overall, great book. Her approach is very applicable in life too.
I would recommend it to "the nice girls" out there. Those who find it hard to say 'No" and especially to friends, those who think they have to match up a gift,... among others. I have recommended it to some of my friends, and bought it for some.

Written for the business woman.......2007-05-15

I think the value of this book to describe the mistakes that Lois has seen women make in the context of a business organization. Women who are not in that world may find it less relevant as the reviews have shown. I found it useful just as a description of her own observations..and I do think that it is true that many high-earning women do little or nothing to understand their own finances and just want not to bother with it. I also think it is a good idea to try to look at the big picture when choosing a career..but I also remember being young and in my 20's with my advisor trying to persuade me to go to medical school and I of course refusing all the advice of anyone over 30.

Looking for concrete money advice? Look elsewhere..........2007-01-11

If you need help in how you think about and perceive money, then sure, this may be the book for you. But if you're a young, up-and-comer or someone looking to correct past mistakes with money--this book borders on worthless.

A better investment is in Suze Orman's book, "Young, Fabulous, and Broke" which comes with access to online features which are really useful.

Great tips and a lot to learn........2006-11-06

I really enjoyed this book. It is greatly motivational and I have already implemented a number of steps to ensure I am financially secure. Recommended to all women and men.

Nice Girls Don't Drink: Stories of Recovery

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The Color of Truth is a Rich Grey
None of those women were me.
Riveting Stories

Nice Girls Don't Drink: Stories of Recovery
Sarah Hafner
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With skill and compassion, Sarah Hafner, a recovering alcoholic, elicits from 18 women their struggles and triumphs as they fought alcoholism in a society where women are already given second class status. By interviewing a cross-section of women, Hafner makes readily available the identification process found so helpful in various recovery programs. These stories reveal the personal side of a disease that afflicts approximately 10.5 million Americans, nearly half of them women, and directly affects the many millions who share the alcoholic's burden--their friends and relatives. Nice Girls Don't Drink invites us into the lives of women from all segments of our society--rich and poor, gay and straight, women in diverse ethnic groups and a variety of occupations. Housewives, salesclerks, counselors, and artists are here together telling of a disease that transcends the distinctions of class, education, and culture. With courage, candor, and even flashes of humor, the women recount the early influences that led to their addiction, often including alcoholic or abusive parents; how alcoholism took over their lives; crucial turning points; and the recovery that enabled them to reclaim their dignity. The book guides readers to sources of help, and lists the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and the thirteen affirmations of Women for Sobriety. A monument to the resilience of the human spirit, Nice Girls Don't Drink is a source of inspiration for the female alcoholic, but more generally, it is for anyone struggling to overcome an addiction or other handicap with the goal of living a more complete life.

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The Color of Truth is a Rich Grey.......2002-06-23

I am not an alcoholic. I am not a woman. I am not chemically addictive. So the world of alcoholism and drug addiction, especially as it impacts women, is psychologically remote to me. I read this book because I have read and enormously admired Sarah Hafner's novel, THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE, which struck me as hauntingly like a good deal of the best Salinger. In moments, I found it truer than Salinger.

The color of truth is what characterizes this book for me. At first, I was struck by the sameness of the tales these women tell. And then, I began to realize, that's the point. It is essentially the same story told over and over. And because the cruelty and pain that fills them all, as cruel as it is, is not sensational, is not dramatic, does not have the unfamiliarity of the truly original, you gradually come to realize that that is precisely because it is not original, unusual, special. It is ordinary hell just as hell is. No fire and brimstone, just ordinary, miserable, hopeless unhappiness into which these women wander and from which they emerge. Though the apparent cruel causes of their addiction are all there to be seen (abuse, denial of love, and the rest), they are clearly not the real causes, they simply trigger the real cause, which is a physical vulnerability to chemical addiction. And though the causes of their emergence from heavy addictive use of chemicals are also faithfully reported by these women - a word, an impossible to deny moment of self-awareness, etc. - it is even more difficult to be sure that these apparent causes are the real ones either. There is only so far we can see into ourselves. All we can be sure of, as we listen to the women tell their stories of recovery, is that at some point something in them grew stronger than the addiction. It all feels, especially as you read these stories consecutively, as mundane and ordinary and opaque as we know the truth out of which fiction is made, to be. It is all a rich gray.

Sarah Hafner's aim here seems finally to be precisely this: to take the glib sensationalism out of alcoholism in particular, and by doing so to offer hope. The reality of addiction, as terrible as it is, is not the demonic thing we outsiders have made it. It is just terrible wretchedness, different in degree but not in kind from the wretchedness most of us have known. This book reminds me some of Hannah Arendt's book on Eichman in which she discovers 'the banality of evil.' It is only fantastically horrible from outside. On the inside, it is banal. It is totally human experience, it is absolutely continuous with the human experience we know. It is not something safely outside and beyond us, painted in gaudy shades of red and yellow. We are not safe from it.

And alcoholics are not fundamentally different from us in any way beyond their inherited chemically addictive natures. It is the lives their addictive natures leads them into that are different.

One final note: Because Sarah Hafner is a fine writer, she knew enough to trust her subjects to tell the story she wanted told. Had she been more intrusive, had she said the kind of thing I've said here, her book would be less powerful and affecting than it is. The best writers know how to turn their stories over to their characters.

None of those women were me........2001-04-18

As a women, a mother, a wife, a student and a teacher, I did not see myself in any of the women in Nice Girls Don't Drink. My life is successful. I have not had any of the "consequences" of heavy drinking but for more than three years recovering from my love affair with alcohol has been foremost on my mind. Perhaps there are others out there, who, like me, drink too much but don't fit into to the "AA" mold of an alcoholic.

Riveting Stories.......1999-02-02

I enjoyed reading this book. I could relate to a lot of what these women were saying...fear...codependency. One line that sticks out is in one women's story she said if you think your drinking was in control then it must of been out of control at some point. This stuck home to me...I was getting out of control. I liked the back of the book how it entails the 13 affirmations from Women in Sobriety and also lists the 12 steps of A.A. I recommend this book for any women who has been drunk on more than one occassion. Another good point was one women questions what was the pain of her drinking....

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Nobody should wear cha cha heels....but they should read this book

Nice Girls Don't Wear Cha Cha Heels
Leigh Rutledge , and Leigh W. Rutledge
Manufacturer: Alyson Publications
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Chapter One: If You Can't Say Anything Niceâ€¦

"You're not a woman. You're a disease!"
-Mike Connors, Where Love Has Gone (1964)

"I thought you were a woman--but you're nothing but a career."
-Sterling Hayden to Bette Davis, The Star (1952)

"You're like some fancy kind of disease. I had it once--now I'm immune."
-John Ireland to Joan Crawford, Queen Bee (1955)

"Floozy! Floozy! Floozy!"
-Carmen Miranda to Cobina Wright, Week-End in Havana (1941)

"Usually, one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature."
-John Gielgud, Arthur (1981)

"Look, if you think you're gonna get back in my panties, forget it. There's one asshole in there already."
-Kathleen Turner, Crimes of Passion (1984)

"Anne Schuyler's in the Blue Book. You're not even in the phone book."
-Edmund Breese, Platinum Blonde (1931)

"You, you're forty-two. There are many good minutes left for you."
-Milton Berle to Eleanor Parker, The Oscar (1960)

"You probably haven't had a good lay in years. Your legs have been together longer than the Lennon Sisters."
-Bette Midler, Stella (1990)

"You know something, Hank? You're 90% man and 10% rat!"
-Lana Turner, Love Has Many Faces (1965)

"The stork that brought you must have been a vulture."
-Ann Sheridan, Torrid Zone (1940)

"You have the touch of a love-starved cobra."
-Monty Woolley, The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)

"As long as they've got sidewalks, you've got a job."
-Joan Blondell, Footlight Parade (1933)

"You're still a little shop girl from San Francisco. You should've stayed on the other side of the counter."
-Constance Bennett to Lana Turner, Madame X (1966)

"There are only two things I dislike about you--your face."
-Elizabeth Taylor to Kim Novak, The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Chapter Two: Bette

Sister number one (Bette Davis): "For someone who just buried her husband this morning, you don't seem very upset."Sister number two (also Bette Davis): "Phony mourning makes me sick!"
-Bette Davis, Dead Ringer (1964)

"I detest cheap sentiment."
-Bette Davis, All About Eve (1

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Nobody should wear cha cha heels....but they should read this book.......2006-06-13

According to the author in her introduction, this book is a compendium of languid come-ons, snitty retorts, blase metaphysics, jaded declarations of love and histrionic expressions of lust from the movies.

If you like campy lines and quotes from great and horrid movies, you'll get a kick out of this book. There are a plethora of quotes from Bette Davis movies (i.e. "Mistress Throgmorton, is this your pet swine?" from the Virgin Queen), Joan Crawford, Valley of the Dolls and the list goes on. Topics include cheap women, food and drink, history and love, of course.

It's pretty funny, and a nice variety of movies are represented. It's worth the money.

Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children: Issue #19: Nice Girls Don't Massacre Ants (Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, Volume 19)

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Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children: Issue #19: Nice Girls Don't Massacre Ants (Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, Volume 19)

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Don't be a Nice Girl
Alan Scholefield
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Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office translated into Finnish.

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This is a fun book that should make you smile and the photography is good

Nice Girls Don't
Laurence Jaugey-Paget
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This is a fun book that should make you smile and the photography is good.......2007-04-08

`Nice Girls Don't' is almost exclusively photos with just occasional minimal text

Though this book's pitched at lesbian intimacy a lot of it is individual subjects. This works though because it provides a feeling and an insight into lesbian lifestyle.

There's couples where there's no indicator of their sexual preference except the fact they're involved in girl/girl sexual activity (a dead give away!!). There's couples where the haircuts, accessories etc all scream lesbian. There's the motorcycle and `scene' girls (tribalism tribadism?). I'm comfortable on large and powerful motorcycles but don't need the image and `pack', but to each their own. Some need to make their statements and wear their colours, be that lesbian, dyke, motorcyclist or any combination that's important to them and they want to identify with and be known by. This book represents them all with high quality, mostly monochrome images.

`Nice Girls Don't' gives a nice overview. From the private happy sharing of love and intimacy (the pregnant woman and her partner in the shower just makes you smile without realizing), to those for whom how they identify themselves and are perceived is important are all here. The images make you really feel the fact every one of these people is a fellow human sharing the planet, also with their own dreams, ambitions, goals, joys, pains and disappointments. Even for a straight man, it's a reminder that our humanity makes us (I reckon) about 98% identical and things like race, gender and sexual preference make up the other 2%, the sauce, not the meal. A title like `One type of Sauce' probably wouldn't work but this book could alternatively have been titled `Nice Girls Just Are' since by sensitive photography the reader starts to feel a closeness that makes it the subjects could be their Sister, Aunty, Daughter, Mother, best friend or possibly, for female readers, themselves. Though it wouldn't affect my world dramatically if every gay girl on Earth suddenly went straight, that doesn't stop me celebrating our differences.

Cheers

Lloyd

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