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amazon_syren Apr. 27th, 2009 11:12 am)
amazon_syren Apr. 27th, 2009 11:12 am)In which I post a note from my mom:
If you have the time, you should try to attend a public lecture Monday night at the central branch of the Ottawa Public Library from 7-9 and hear Marilyn Waring[1] speak. She is a New Zealander who has written several books on women's work - truly excellent. I heard her speak in the late 80s - she is a feminist economist who speaks in an easy understandable way, non confrontational and creative style.... and likes to quote Leonard Cohen's Anthem "there is a crack, a crack in everything/ That's how the light gets in." She likes to think about old ideas in new ways. Her fans include Gloria Steinem and the late JK Galbraith amongst thousands of others. She is 56 years old now but was elected to the NZ legislature when she was 23 in 1975 but quit politics in 1984.
I'll be there! How 'bout you? :-D
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
[1] Author of Counting for Nothing: What Men Value, What Women are Worth, among other things.
If you have the time, you should try to attend a public lecture Monday night at the central branch of the Ottawa Public Library from 7-9 and hear Marilyn Waring[1] speak. She is a New Zealander who has written several books on women's work - truly excellent. I heard her speak in the late 80s - she is a feminist economist who speaks in an easy understandable way, non confrontational and creative style.... and likes to quote Leonard Cohen's Anthem "there is a crack, a crack in everything/ That's how the light gets in." She likes to think about old ideas in new ways. Her fans include Gloria Steinem and the late JK Galbraith amongst thousands of others. She is 56 years old now but was elected to the NZ legislature when she was 23 in 1975 but quit politics in 1984.
I'll be there! How 'bout you? :-D
- TTFN,
- Amazon.
[1] Author of Counting for Nothing: What Men Value, What Women are Worth, among other things.
