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Laquo; Local Bookstores, Social Hubs, and Mutualization. Secretary Clinton’s Internet Freedom Speech, Abridged. A Rant About Women. So I get email from a good former student, applying for a job and asking for a recommendation. “Sure”, I say, “Tell me what you think I should say.” I then get a draft letter back in which the student has described their work and fitness for the job in terms so superlative it would make an Assistant Brand Manager blush. Now, can you guess the gender of the student involved?
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When Wise Women Speak: Carol Grier
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Carol was born in 1924, in a farmhouse near Orofino, Idaho where she lived briefly with her mom, Elizabeth, and her birth father. By 1931, the nation struggled in the grips of an economic depression. Carol was seven when her new father, lucky enough to find a job, moved the family to Yosemite National Park. The experiences of the next six years would stay with her for the rest of her life. From Choices, a Memoir:. Why did you write.
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When Wise Women Speak: Colette
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? For many, the name Colette conjures vague images of a French dancer with a questionable reputation.and didn't she do some writing? In the U.S. she is best known for Gigi,. Published in 1945 when she was seventy-two. There were over fifty novels written before that. Dele Eugenia Sidonie Landois, Sido —. A wise, down-to-earth Maman. 8212;became known to many through Colette's stories, My Mother's House. Cigarettes and perfume to choco...
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When Wise Women Speak: Helen Keller Social Activist
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Helen Keller Social Activist. Of her disabilities. I suppose that could hold a grain of truth. It was because of her disabilities that she began working for others like her, and became aware of the disproportionate numbers of disabled in lower income brackets. The aim of all government should be to secure to the workers as large a share as possible of the fruits of their toil. For is it not labor that creates all things? I am only o...
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When Wise Women Speak: Alice Lynn
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? There are times when a single event can change a person's life forever. If it occurs in latter years, the impact, though not lessened, finds fewer days upon which to cast its shadow. The above text is from a review I wrote about Alice Lynn's third novel, Scattered Pieces. It was also the third Lynn book I had the opportunity to read. I'll share more about those shortly. First, meet Alice Lynn. Can he or she hear what you say? Nevert...
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When Wise Women Speak: Devon St. Claire
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Devon St. Claire. Have you ever started a writing project and wondered if you would have enough to say about the topic? From the first word, I knew that would not be a problem in composing this article. In fact, I guessed correctly that I would have too much to say. And The San Francisco Examiner. And Shadow Women, Emerging into Light. Memoir of the House. It challenges my gray matter to think of all the houses and apartments I've i...
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When Wise Women Speak: Judy Stone
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Meet Dr. Judy Stone, a friend for over thirty years. After I asked her to join the 'Wise Women' ranks and received her musings, I realized there was more than a blog in her story. We discussed it and decided to publish her memoir. So here is a brief introduction to my dear friend, and a bit of a teaser for her book,. A Stone's Throw' which will be out in the near future. I did not even leave my seat during intermission. Leaving ther...
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When Wise Women Speak: Dorothea Tanning
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Photograph by Man Ray © Man Ray Trust. I recently read Dorothea Tanning's autobiography Between Lives: An Artist and Her World,. Published in 2001. Tanning died on January 31, 2012, at her home in New York. She was 101. The previous year, she published her second book of poetry, Coming to That. To find her name permanently identified with surrealism. Lthough she was a member of the early. Birthday 1942 Oil on canvas. Max in a Blue B...
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When Wise Women Speak: August 2012
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? The sudden death of her husband, General Nathanial Greene in 1786,. Left Catherine Littlefield Greene to raise. Five children and run a struggling plantation. She hired and manager and. Are you familiar with the Tennessee River Campaign of 1862? An investigation into the Civil War would. Tell you it was considered by many as the. Further research would credit. Radio episode about Anna Ella Carroll. It aired in June of 1941. ...And p...
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When Wise Women Speak: Mary Cassatt
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When Wise Women Speak. Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? Portrait of Mary Cassatt Holding Cards. Edgar Degas c. 1876–1878 oil on canvas. It was during my research for this post that t. He current round of attacks on women. Came to the forefront, reminding me. That the struggle is an old one. The Women's Rights Movement. In the United States. In Seneca Falls, New York i. Against societal and artistic convention would. Spanish Dancer Lace Mantilla. 1873 Mary Cassatt oil on canvas. Often cal...
