November 8, 2011
My first encounter with Ludmilla Stephanovna Petrushevskaya was on a cold January night, in a shadowy Moscow bar full of antique upholstery and cigarette smoke. She arrived nearly two hours late and took the stage in a purple dress and huge matching hat. At 70+, Petrushevskaya, dissident writer, had reinvented herself as a cabaret performer. ...
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbour's Baby,
Tuesday book club
May 2, 2011
I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
September 1, 2010
No one has ever accused Disney of feminism but these adorable videos illustrate exactly what these princesses are teaching our daughters about womanhood.
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The Beauty and the Beast,
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