Judith Krantz Quotes
My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.
Krantz, Judith. "Author Interview." Bookreporter.com, The Book Report Network, 2000.
The Act allowed women and other workers who were the victims of wage discrimination to sue the discriminating employers even after the statute of limitations and run out provided that they victim had no knowledge of the discrimination. Lilly Ledbetter was a Goodyear Supervisor who was for years paid far less than the male supervisors doing the same work. But the company kept it secret and Ms. Ledbetter didn’t find out until the statute of limitations had said she could no longer sue. The Lilly Ledbetter Act corrected that injustice. President Obama observed that discrimination in pay affects not only the woman or other worker, but also the entire family which might therefor not be able to obtain health care, education, or care for elderly parents. At the time that this quotation was made, white women in America who were working full time were earning only 77 percent of what men earned. For minority women, the proportion is even less. As bad as that was, it was an improvement over the situation when the equal pay act was passed 50 years before. Then, women earned only 53 percent of what a man did.
Bauer was accused by some of social conservatives of adultery with female staff members. While the accusation had no foundation, Bauer installed a glass door in his personal office so that he could meet with female staff without ultra-conservative criticism.
Judith Krantz was a magazine writer and fashion editor who turned to fiction as she approached the age of 50. Her first novel Scruples (1978) quickly became a New York Times best-seller and went on to be a worldwide publishing success, translated into 50 languages. Scruples, which describes the glamorous and affluent world of high fashion in Beverly Hills, California, helped define a new supercharged sub-genre of the romance novel - the bonkbuster or "sex-and-shopping" novel. She also fundamentally changed the publishing industry by becoming one of the first celebrity authors through her extensive touring and promotion - "a superstar of fiction". Her later books included Princess Daisy (1980), Till We Meet Again (1988), Dazzle (1990) and Spring Collection (1996). Her autobiography, Sex and Shopping: The Confessions of a Nice Jewish Girl, was published in 2000.
