“I am sure that if mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars” E. M. Forster. For literally decades now (and especially since I published my Sustainable Living Text in 2012) I have promoted a positive vision for a new and better future for humanity and Read more…
“Communities and countries and ultimately the world are only as strong as the health of their women” Michelle Obama. When it comes to medical and drug research and treatment, it might not surprise you to know that women yet again get the short end of the stick compared to men. Read more…
“Her … food, clothing, ornaments, amusements, luxuries [all] bear no relation to her power to produce wealth, to her services in the house, or to her motherhood” Charlotte Perkins Gilman. My mother (born in 1926) was a powerful personality trapped in a world not of her choosing. This has made Read more…
“The word ‘female,’ when inserted in front of something, is always with a note of surprise. Female COO, female pilot, female surgeon — as if the gender implies surprise … One day there won’t be female leaders. There will just be leaders” Tracy Chou. In the film ‘My Fair Lady’ Read more…
An aspect of the Sustainability Revolution I have rarely seen, except for the idea that we are becoming more androgenous is the notion of femininity. Today’s discussion will be one that all women will recognize completely and that most men will have been unaware, except when hearing complaints from their Read more…
I ended the last post with an except by Walter Lippman on the absurdity and insanity of war, and in this case, WWI. Now did the common people really have any specific buy-in to the Austro-Hungarian Arch-Duke who was assassinated, in recently annexed Serbia, at the end of June 1914. Read more…