These Pleasure Revolutionaries also prove that change, self discovery, and self improvement don’t have to involve suffering. They also profile inspiring hero*ines from history adventurous, colorful women from all over the world and all walks of life from the fictional Nancy Drew and Dagny Taggart and powerful mythic figures such as Inanna and Mary Magdalene to popular artists Georgia O’Keeffe and Madonna, romance novelists George Sand and Nora Roberts, and activist Victoria Woodhull, who was the first woman to run for president. To show us the myriad ways to find satisfaction and become the hero*ines of our own lives, theyconduct lively interviews with ‘Pleasure Revolutionaries’ including scientist Helen Fisher, historian Riane Eisler, writers Julia Quinn and Ruth Reichl, and gourmet pioneer Alice Waters. Drawing from their years of research into women’s history including the suppressed ancient Goddess religions as well as the latest scientific findings, the Rodales prove that, for women, pleasure is the path to freedom, happiness, and self fulfillment. And it’s essential for your health and success. It’s endemic to women’s bodies, minds, and experiences on Earth. In the Rodales’ exciting vision of every woman’s potential, pleasure is not a simple, momentary experience to be segregated into a few minutes a day. In ‘It’s My Pleasure,’ Maria Rodale, the dynamic leader of a powerful lifestyle corporation who successfully revolutionized her own business, and Maya Rodale, her talented writer daughter, show you how to create a pleasure revolution in your own life to stop hiding your pleasure and incorporate it fully into everything you do, no matter what your age, situation, or religious background. For your own sake and ultimately for your loved ones it’s high time you dropped the guilt and took back ‘your’ pleasure. Yet most women have lost sight of their vital need for pleasure, and feel guilty for taking even ten minutes for themselves they don’t want to seem self indulgent, or they can’t afford the time, or they’re too busy taking care of other people instead of themselves. What’s ‘your’ pleasure? However you define it, pleasure is vital to every woman’s life to your life especially in today’s hard driving, hard working society.

Pleasure: The state or feeling of being pleased, gratified, delighted.

Lady Bridget's Diary by Maya Rodale