From The New York Times >
"Henry and Gus appear just a few weeks after 9/11. Not, as Ms. Newman had hoped, on H. L. Mencken's birthday, but on the birthday of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. (That's Sept. 25, for those of you taking notes.)..."

From O: The Oprah Magazine >
"Unnatural Woman is all-girl, funny and determinedly upbeat... immensely intelligent and compelling..."

From People Magazine >
"The author spares no embarrassing detail in this diary detailing seven agonizing but hilarious years she spent trying to get pregnant..."

From The Forward >
"You know someone isn't going to sentimentalize motherhood when her memoir opens, "The first thing I thought when I saw my sons was, 'I wonder if they'd look less like space aliens if I penciled in their eyebrows.'"..."

From Child Magazine >
"With sheer hilarity and obsessive honesty, Judith Newman bares all. Her voyage as a 40+ mom is one of desperate yearning, relief, anxiety, insecurity, and joy..."

From The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette >
"Judith Newman is one very funny mother who says irreverent things most mothers don't admit to themselves, let alone blab to the world..."

From Publisher's Weekly >
"Geezers with children," Ladies Home Journal columnist Newman calls herself and her husband, "whose cumulative age exceeds one hundred..."