Elizabeth Fishel

Elizabeth Fishel is a journalist and author. In 2000, Fishel published her fourth book profiling 10 of her classmates from the class of 1968 at Brearley School titled Reunion: The Girls We Used to Be, the Women We Became. Her book I Swore I'd Never Do That! was awarded "Best Parenting Book" by Parent's Choice Award in 1991.

Fishel has also written for various magazines and newspapers, including McCall's, Vogue, Redbook, Parents, Ms., Parenting, The New York Times Book Review and the San Francisco Chronicle.

She presently lives in Oakland, California with her spouse, Robert Houghteling, and their two sons.

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    ...we avoid hospitals because ... they’ll kill you there. They overtreat you. And when they see how old you are, and that you still have a mind, they treat you like a curiosity: like “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit B.” Like, “Hey. nurse, come on over here and looky-here at this old woman, she’s in such good shape....” . Most of the time they don’t even treat you like a person, just an object.
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