Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Austin was born c. 1949 in Portland, Oregon, the oldest of three children. Her parents were both from Seattle, Washington -- her father was in mortgage banking, and her mother was a homemaker. Austin received a BA and 1977 MBA from UCLA, became a member of Alpha Phi, and was affiliated with the Neuropsychiatric Institute, where she was part of a team that was brought together to study and improve the community mental health system in California. She married Bill Cawley c.1975, becoming stepmother to his 8-year-old son, Jeff. 1975 was also the year that she wrote The Assertive Woman, which continues to be in print 30 years later. It has been translated into several languages, and sold approximately 420,000 copies.

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