The woman said yes : encounters with life and death : memoirs (1976)

by Jessamyn West

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The author writes about her struggle with tuberculosis and about her sister's courage in the face of incurable cancer.

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The Woman Said YES reads like an exciting novel of love, life, disease, and death, told with deep personal insights and high wit.

It would be enhanced by the inclusion of the photographs so carefully described since
beauty is an important element in the early story of that Mother who said YES - seeing what that meant would be welcome.

The fairly dispassionate way that Jessamyn West wrote left me feeling oddly distant from the three captivating women. (

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m.belljackson | Apr 16, 2019 |

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Actually, there were two women, possibly three. One woman, however, was the mother of the other tow, and her "yes" lay behind all their subsequent affirmations.

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With love for Grace and Carmen and to celebrate their courage

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The woman who said yes had four children, two of them girls.

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