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But she’s not Superwoman, so it’s impossible to shield herself completely from the daily barrage of bulletins from the nation’s capital, where Trump said this week that he’d like to detain and deport U.S. citizens and have them locked up in foreign prisons.

The title alone nods to the playful pragmatism that guides the book, a riff on a well-worn adage coined by “Superwoman” author Shirley Conran in the 1970s.

“People called her Superwoman and that’s just who she was. She was amazing, and when she put her mind to something there wasn’t anyone who was going to tell her no or stop her.”

Conran also wrote “Superwoman,” a witty and proudly feminist primer on household management.

The title was ironic, Conran wrote: “A Superwoman isn’t a woman who can do anything, but a woman who avoids doing too much.”