With quotes from First Ladies, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, Betty Ford, Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meir, and Indira Gandhi. In entertainment: Meryl Streep, Patty Duke, Susan Trustman Leider, Phyllis Diller, Carla Borelli, Lolita Davidovich, Natalie Wood, and Pearl Bailey. The perfect gift for a new bride, Mother's Day, a close friend, a birthday, a "get well" gift. String of Pearls: A Mother's Wisdom is dedicated to Mary True, an accomplished and well known Baltimore musician. In 1983 Baltimore Magazine named Mary True "Baltimore's Best Cocktail Pianist" and in 1989 she received a Congressional Achievement Award praising her for her "exemplary contributions to the field of performing arts."