Gold diggers."Nearly Half of Women Fear Life as a Bag Lady" was the headline over a recent article by Jennifer Harper in The Washington Times. The article cites a survey of 1,925 women by a large insurance company, to which 46 percent of respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. said they feared becoming bag ladies. Incredibly, for women with incomes of more than $100,000 a year, the figure was not lower but a slightly higher 48 percent. This accords with my own experience. Women have always seemed to me to be more concerned with financial security than men. In those romantic novels so many of them love to read, the heroes are usually not only hunks hunks pl.n. (used with a sing. verb) A disagreeable and often miserly person. [Origin unknown.] , but rich, or clearly on their way to being rich. That's why I was delighted to learn about one exception from an article about Nora Roberts Nora Roberts (born October 10, 1950 in Silver Spring, Maryland as Eleanor Marie Robertson), is a bestselling American author of more than 150 romance novels. She was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. She is a romance novelist who herself married a carpenter and whose hero is usually a man of modest means. Her woman, writes Ginia Bellafante Ginia Bellafante (born March 31, 1965) is an American writer and critic, primarily for the New York Times. of the Times, "might be a schoolteacher and [her] man might drive a cab." |
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