Download or read book What are Big Girls Made Of? written by Marge Piercy and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Others extol the salty pleasures of middle age: making love with a familiar and adored partner; the ease with which one comes to accept one's body - a good belly, for example, is "a maternal cushion radiating comfort," handed down from mother to daughter like a prize feather quilt.