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Isabel Allende - a courageous writer out of the house of spirits

Today I want to introduce to one of my favorite writers Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

A courageous woman and a good author who tells stories of strong women and finds memorable words especially for…

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Added by ginster plantagenet on July 15, 2012 at 7:00am — No Comments

Charles Beaudelaire - Be quiet and more discreet, O my Grief

Charles Beaudelaire is one of my favorite poets and I am lucky to find my favorite poem in several translations:…

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Added by ginster plantagenet on June 29, 2012 at 2:22am — 1 Comment

Aung San Suu Kyi speech to peace novel price after

Aung San Suu Kyi speech in Norway on June 16, 2012

More than twenty years after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally delivered her Nobel speech in Norway’s capital Oslo on Saturday.

The Burmese Opposition Leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, says the Nobel peace…

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Added by ginster plantagenet on June 28, 2012 at 1:12am — No Comments

Gamer Girl Manifesto

Don't be racist. Don't be homophobic. Don't be sexist. Follow that code and everybody will have a good time. And when someone breaks that code, CALL THEM OUT.

Don't just let it ride.…

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Added by ginster plantagenet on June 28, 2012 at 1:08am — No Comments

I need feminism - " WOMEN ARE HEROES"

http://www.ginster-plantagenet.blogspot.de/2012/06/i-need-feminism-women-are-heroes.html

One of my favorite website is the TED Talk and there I always find courageous people, artists and scientists who are innovative and take action. Trying to change the world. They give me inspiration and wonder! …

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Added by ginster plantagenet on June 28, 2012 at 1:00am — No Comments

Trivia blogs and we can share

Trivia blogs

So happy Trivia is back and reborn

Added by ginster plantagenet on April 4, 2012 at 1:00am — No Comments

Ballade of the Poverties by Adrienne Rich, RIP Adrienne Rich, a pioneering lesbian feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream, has died. She w…

Ballade of the Poverties by Adrienne Rich, RIP

Adrienne Rich, a pioneering lesbian feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream, has died. She was 82. RIP

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Added by ginster plantagenet on April 4, 2012 at 12:40am — 1 Comment

A Woman's place seems to disappear in the literary presence in media

ever so important to make sure women stay at the frontline on the literary parquet!!! Stay aware how the media and price jury are dominated by patriarchal patterns and lack of awareness even from female journalists!!!A Woman's place

quoting Jane Sullivan:

And the winners are ...

WE DON'T say judges are…

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Added by ginster plantagenet on January 19, 2012 at 8:55am — 1 Comment

Do male writers have an edge in attracting serious critical attention?

Do male writers have an edge in attracting serious critical attention? This question, is asked by Katha Pollitt in The Nation, .....

so urgent to women writers, so tedious to male editors and pundits, is getting its latest workout thanks to the vigorous tweeting of bestselling popular novelists Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult about the accolades heaped upon Jonathan Franzen's new novel, Freedom (two ecstatic New York Times reviews, the cover of Time and much, much more) and Gary… Continue

Added by ginster plantagenet on October 3, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

current discussion on women, mother at work

I found this quote of clever Gertrude today and it made my day:
We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs. - Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)

Added by ginster plantagenet on March 21, 2010 at 12:05am — No Comments

good book presentation on Wednesday, 27 January in Munich/Germany

Herzlich willkommen beim Christel Göttert Verlag!

Neu erschienen:

kein

"Wir dachten alles neu" - Die Feministin Erika Wisselinck und ihre Zeit (von Gabriele Meixner)

Mit den Worten von Virginia Woolf laden wir Sie dazu ein,

frauen-leben - frauen-welten zu entdecken:

Ganz offensichtlich denken wir verschieden, weil wir

verschieden geboren sind. (Drei… Continue

Added by ginster plantagenet on January 29, 2010 at 12:40am — No Comments

legal alien

I had hoped that this subject would gain more comments or even interest. The fact that girls are being educated or socialized to be what they should be and not encouraged to be as they are.... to look 'female' and to act 'female'. for a long time the girls will not realize who they really are until they start not 'fitting'. lately I heard a comment how little female the German chancellor Merkel would be.... well, it is the year 2009 and still those comments come out of an ignorant mouth. Please… Continue

Added by ginster plantagenet on December 18, 2009 at 2:13am — No Comments

my little sister in mind

This is my little Frida (Kahlo) doll. I have bought it in the Washington Womens museum and I fell in love with her....my sister in mind....

I fell in love with her at first site. Never liked dolls, but she is something different....

Added by ginster plantagenet on December 4, 2009 at 3:27pm — No Comments

legal alien

I am a legal alien, anywhere I am and meanwhile I am allright with this.

I have been a legal alien in Germany, although being German, our remaining female (Protestant) family members were refugees after the war coming from bombed Berlin into the(Catholic) Bavarian country side.

Belonging to the after war generation standing up against the parent generation in 1968, have been a legal alien in the Netherlands in the early sixties, being a German there and belonging to the nation of… Continue

Added by ginster plantagenet on December 1, 2009 at 12:30am — 6 Comments

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