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| 02.February: This is my first page update in 2006. January has flown quickly and hot. Records of temperature are being broken. After my 'I don't know" of October 1st , l actually travelled in my vacation. The trip was not so productive as I imagined or hoped, but good enough to let me see my friends again. Others that virtually dissapeared for quite a while are back keeping in touch by e-mail. Invitations were made for my next vacations.This is good, isn't it? The days are in majority sunny and I adore this. I am not in a hurry for the arrival of the winter, this thing that floods everything and leaves the city streets in a chaos. Llife goes slowly... And you know... 2005 sucked! 05.May: It's Friday! The messy, raining winter is getting closer each day. April was terrible! Many little annoying things happened. I am glad it's over. Now it's time to update this page and celebrate its 1st anniversary of existence. Cake? |
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| Last entries in 2005: 01.October: And 4 months had passed... Wow. Soon the year will be over. The days had flown fast. Good or bad? Good, if the year was bad; bad if the year was good. Who had one good year? Well, mine wasn't that bad - so far - and also wasn't excellent. Which year was excellent? One whole year of good things? Or at least one sensational day that made worth all the 365? I have four years that I detested and that I was happy when they were over: 1978, 1981, 1993 and 1999. Among all those, 1993 was far worse of any I had or have already had. Awful things following horrible things. It is Saturday and the sky is blue and the sun shines. The neighbor 's mangoes tree is bloomimg again and in about a month or so I will be off on vacation. Ahh.. I can't hardly wait. I do urgently need this pause! In the middle of the way it will come my birthday. This date 'has tormented' me in these last months, but the 'freaking out' has finished. Now it's to begin another stage in my life. How will it be? What is going to happen? Will I buy a bed? Will I be changing the cover of my car's sits? Will I travel? Am I going to freak out for good? I don't I know.... 26.October: I am on vacation! Eeeaaee...! Today is the first day of a so long waited pause. I adore these days away from work. Do I need to say more? I don't care about time and schedules. The days are hot and I can take a nap on my mattress-tatame whenever I feel like it. Beautiful! And If I have some time and disposition I'll try updating the page "Share with us" which is getting messy with too many texts. |
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| “The anatomy is destiny", Napoleon I "Some beings when born, are destined to obey, others to command", Aristotle "The men from the black races have brain a little heavier than the ones from the white women", Le Bom "The average mental ability of the man must be superior to the one of the woman", Darwin "All women's education must be relative to the men", Rosseau "How it begun the women submission to men(...)? For their nature, their sex, exactly as the black men are and will always be (...) inferior to the white race, and therefore condemned to submission ", N.Y. Herald Tribune, Editorial 1852 "Reason predominates in the man (..) and in the woman the feeling", Hitler "Nature determined the women’s destiny through the beauty, the charm and the sweetness", Freud "The black woman is of course a public daughter", Esquiros "A woman must be neutral in the public affaires. Her family and her domestic duties are her first obligations ", Bolivar "The woman is the animal that nourishes evil (...) source of all the quarrels, complaints and injustices", Saint Augustin "Will be the women the employees to unload the beetroots at night, as they are more skillful and more flexible, and because they resist better to the mud and to the cold", Boss office circular of a sugar refinery in the north of France – 1860 From the poster "O CÉREBRO DAS BALEIAS - ou do 'feminino' e da 'natureza' no Pensamento Ocidental" (The Whale brain, or the 'feminine' and the 'nature' on the West thought), distribuited by SOS Corpo. |
| Some 'pearls' from chauvinistic and misogynist prejudice |
| "Coward men, who had been unjust during all their life, probably will be transformed into women when they reincarnate", Plato "The woman is an accidental and defective being. Her destiny is to live under the man’s guardianship ", Saint Thomas de Aquino "The female is female due to certain lack of quality. The woman is more vulnerable to mercy, cries very easily, and has more tendencies to envy, lament and offense. Easily leaves herself to be taken by despair. She is less reliable ", Aristotle "The woman is an inferior being and from who nothing can be expected. She is a diminutive of man, some kind of a link between man and the remaining portion of the animal kingdom ", Proudhon "I would desire more a beard woman than a wise one”, Balzac Excerpts from the book "Mudando o Mundo: a Liderança Feminina no Século 21" (Changing the world: Female leadership on the 21st Century), Rede Mulher de Educação |
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| My friend Nicole in Guatemala. I just got the picture by e-mail (October, 01). Nicole lives in Canada and participates actively in actions for international help. Here she is with two little girls using donated pack-sacs. Nicole was happy to know the donations got there and that they were being used by the kids. They were sent filled with school stuff. Nicole participated intensely on fundraising for building a school in Guatemala. Cool, huh? |
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| To read more 2005 entries click here. (Sorry everyone, there the thoughts are in my original language) |
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Inside every older person is a younger person -- wondering what the hell happened. -Cora Harvey Armstrong- Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut the bitch up with cookies. (Unknown) The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy. -Helen Hayes (at 73) - I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. -Janette Barber-- Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. -Lily Tomlin- A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who never owned a car. -Carrie Snow- Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends. -Laurie Kuslansky- My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first one being -- hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. -Erma Bombeck- Old age ain't no place for sissies. -Bette Davis- A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't. -Rhonda Hansome- The phrase "working mother" is redundant. -Jane Sellman- Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows. -Jennifer Unlimited- Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. -Charlotte Whitton- Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart. -Caryn Leschen- I try to take one day at a time -- but sometimes several days attack me at once. -Jennifer Unlimited- If you can't be a good example -- then you'll just have to be a horrible warning. -Catherine- I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb -- and I'm also not blonde. -Dolly Parton- If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them. -Sue Grafton- I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. -Roseanne Barr- When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. -Elayne Boosler- Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. -Maryon Pearson- In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher- I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. -Gloria Steinem- I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house. -Zsa Zsa Gabor- Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. -Eleanor Roosevelt- |
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