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    Someone Has to Set a Bad Example: An Anne Taintor Collection
    Someone Has to Set a Bad Example: An Anne Taintor Collection
    Someone Has to Set a Bad Example: An Anne Taintor Collection
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    Someone Has to Set a Bad Example: An Anne Taintor Collection

    By Anne Taintor

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    The phenomenally popular artist wittily reveals the realities behind images of perfect women in midcentury marketing.
     
    We can’t be good all the time, and no one knows it better than Anne Taintor. This generous collection of her most popular artwork includes more than 150 images in categories such as friendship (a real friend will help you hide the body), motherhood (WOW! I get to give birth AND change diapers!), money (screw the budget!), attitude (let a smirk be your umbrella), and more.
     
    Also featuring an introduction by Taintor, this hilarious volume perfectly captures the deliciously sarcastic, snarky, and honest things that most women have found themselves thinking at one time or another. If you’re looking for trouble, look no further. . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 24, 2012
    ISBN9781452113173
    Someone Has to Set a Bad Example: An Anne Taintor Collection

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      Someone Has to Set a Bad Example - Anne Taintor

      perpare to be amazed

      Introduction

      I started out life as a bit of a scamp. By the middle of first grade, however, the Sisters of Mercy had put a firm lid on that. For the next eight years, I was so well-behaved that even the nuns thought I was a goody two-shoes. Eventually, I escaped to public school, and by the time I was a sophomore in high school and my sister Liz was a freshman, it was pretty difficult to discern who was setting a bad example for whom. Mothers wept. Fathers gnashed their teeth. Then along came our younger sister Ellen, and we all had to bow to the master.

      Setting a bad example does not necessarily mean being bad. It might just mean doing what you want instead of what others expect from you. It might mean being a bit more adventurous than the

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