title: Gifts from the Elders: Girls' Path to Womanhood
author: Gail Burkett  Ph.D.
description: In the middle of her life, Gail Burkett returned to school for an academic perspective on adolescence. For her doctorate from the Union Institute, she chose two pathswomen?s studies and nature studies. In Gifts from the Elders, she rekindles the ancient, womanhood legacy for Rites of Passage and women?s circles for girls from eight to eighteen. Gail is now building a national network of women and girls circles.
zlib_text: THE GIFT
  LADY LEOPARD SERIES
  
  SHAY VIOLET
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  CONTENTS
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Chapter 13
  Chapter 14
  Chapter 15
  Chapter 16
  Chapter 17
  Chapter 18
  Chapter 19
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  1
  NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO, YOU NEVER FORGET WHERE YOU COME FROM.
  Whether it’s your first boss who didn’t pay you as much as your male
  coworkers, or your grandmother who always believed that you had the
  strength to become whatever you wanted to be, your past shapes who
  you are today.
  Places, like people, have a history. As women of color knock down
  doors and bust through glass ceilings, I want to catalogue the