Judith Thurman on Colette

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Judith Thurman is the author of “Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette.”  She tells Steve Paulson that Colette was a great writer who personified “the new woman” and led exactly the life she wanted, despite society’s outrage over her career choices and sexual behavior. Thurman says Colette wrote ecstatically about her mother and daughter, but was not successful in these intimate relationships.